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Here’s Bruce Springsteen in September of this year: “I believe that there’s a price being paid for not addressing the real cost of the deindustrialization and globalization that has occurred in the United States for the past 35, 40 years and how it’s deeply affected people’s lives and deeply hurt people to where they want […]
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If you spend any time suffering with Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing jobs, the first thing you realize is that you’re not qualified for the majority of them, even “human intelligence tasks” that only pay a penny. Here’s a breakdown of the total jobs advertised on Mechanical Turk today and those available to me with a 98 […]
At a time of great unemployment, poverty wages and increasing inequality, the Food and Drug Association has committed to employing Mechanical Turk digital sweat-shop labor through a private sector sub-contractor. Pure and simple, it is the use of taxpayer money in the nullification of people for the siphoning of the money to corporate America. Think […]
While digital sweat-shopping at Amazon today — it’s the only way your host can earn a few dimes in the American economy these days — I spent a little extra time looking at the phenomenon of Mechanical Turk jobs, human intelligence tasks paying zero cents. There are loads of them. Two sample screen shots, for […]
Thanskgiving weekend earnings on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Helped along by a comment from TP: On the Guardian Ladies Field Hockey team, the left back, Lucy Mangan, has noticed vile Bezos, the Mechanical Turk & TaskRabbit, but then fails to attack with any great vigour. Mangan’s bit is short but includes the now familiar Dickensian descriptions […]
Jeff Bezos thinks he’s going to help move the human race’s production machinery into space. Look up his most recent grandiose claims and find some rubbish on how the earth will be zoned “residential and light industrial.” Where people who aren’t Bezos wealthy or his assistants, the future Mechanical Turkers of the world will live […]
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Another blighted week begins in the fossilized superpower of capitalism and casual cruelty we call home. From the WaPo’s EJ Dionne (no link): “I’d respect these folks a lot more if they said what they clearly believe: They think more inequality would be good for us. It almost makes you nostalgic for the candor of […]
Many, many people fully understand the sharing economy is a racket, one in which tech industry start-ups depend upon the desperation of labor in an economy that’s stagnant. Searching for any income, even miniscule amounts of compensation, millions take whatever can be had in service piece work jobs administered by owners who operate networks that […]
Tech industry start-ups love the operation of the sharing scamming economy. At its base is a smartphone driven global network that reduces people to pieceworkers. That is poverty level pay work akin to jobs from the 18th and 19th century, only made new through the smartphone and the desktop for the 21st. Old piecework slavery […]
It’s a commonly seen antic in our Culture of Lickspittle: Zillionaires who grab headlines or design new public images around a feigned concern for the middle class and inequality that’s the toast of Davos and Aspen. From TIME magazine, an essay on how said zillionaires are allegedly expressing concern for the environment they’ve greased. In […]
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