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Cory Doctorow

When we talk about the abuses of , there's some obvious targets, like , where two workers are paid different rates for the same job, in order to trick occasional gig-workers to give up their other sources of income and become dependent on the app:

pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/com

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An old photo of strikers before a struck factory, with tear-gas plumes rising above them. The image has been modified to add a Marriott sign to the factory, and the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' to the sky over the factory. The workers have been colorized to a yellow-green shade and the factory has been colorized to a sepia tone. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en
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Cory Doctorow

Then there's the opacity - imagine if your boss refused to tell you how much you'll get paid for a job until *after* you've completed it, claimed that this was done in order to "protect privacy" - and then threatened anyone who helped you figure out the true wage on offer:

pluralistic.net/2021/08/07/hr-

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pluralistic.netPluralistic: 07 Aug 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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