The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation w/ Phil Jones
Tech Won't Save Us
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Is Automation Going to Wipe Out a Ton of Jobs?
i tells a very different story. The real driver of unemployment has been a dip in global labour demand set in motion by the crisis of overproduction that began in the 19 seventies. This context has created lots of badly paid service jobs, but it was also the context from which big data and machine learning emerged. But there are also lots of poorly paid workers doing short data tasks on sites like amirson mechanical turk click worker and apen. These sites act as intermediaries between contractors who use the sights to outsource tasks. They are usually big tech companies like gugle amizon, or maybe a smaller start up. And then workers will jost to complete the tasks.
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