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Luke Munn, "Automation Is a Myth" (Stanford UP, 2022)

New Books in Anthropology

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Digital Freelancers in the Global South

The idea of digital freelancers so if you're having a work you can outsource it to people somewhere in Sri Lanka for example or in India or in Africa they would do the same job with and you can pay less. There's this usually this other company which acts as a mediary between you and that freelancer but again to me it looked like another sort of sort of exploiting the this army of freelancers or invisible let's say digital underclass maybe.

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