Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024)


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Pluralistic: Reverse engineers bust sleazy gig work platform (23 Nov 2024)


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Pluralistic: Return to work and dying on the job (27 Sep 2024)


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Pluralistic: The reverse-centaur apocalypse is upon us (02 Aug 2024)


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Pluralistic: AI's productivity theater (25 Jul 2024)


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Pluralistic: Cigna's nopeinator (29 Apr 2024)


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Pluralistic: Wellness surveillance makes workers unwell (15 Mar 2024)


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Pluralistic: The REAL AI automation threat to workers (11 Jan 2024)


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Pluralistic: Forcing your computer to rat you out (02 August 2023)


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Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk

They turned the cottage into a factory.

A woodcut of a weaver’s loft, where a woman works at a hand-loom. Out of the window opposite her looms the glowing, menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ On the wall behind her is the poster from Magpie Killjoy’s ‘Steampunk Magazine’ that reads, ‘Love the machine, hate the factory.’
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Despite what you may have heard, the Luddites weren’t technophobes. They were skilled workers, expert high tech machine operators who supplied the world with fine textiles. Thanks to a high degree of labor organization through craft guilds, the workers received a fair share of the profit from their labors. They worked hard, but they earned enough through their labors to enjoy lives of dignity and comfort.

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