The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation w/ Phil Jones
Tech Won't Save Us
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Micro Work Platforms in the Global South
Micre work is not obviously well known in a lot of countries. What tends to happen is that it will become popular amongst a a few people, and then it will spread by word of mouth over watsap. So large numbers of f the venezuelan middle class ended up doing incredibly poorly paid work on these platforms. As it would amount to around about dollar an hour. More workers that arrived on the platforms looking for employment opportunities, the more these platforms could lower wages. And so it got to the point where actually lots of these workers just left the platforms because they presumably could make more money in the informal sector. Well, you know, these latonomous vehicle companies that have not
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