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[...] AI isn’t to make workers more productive, it’s to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses. Tim Cook’s engineers get beer-fattened, chestnut finished and massaged, but Cook’s factory workers in China are so maltreated that Foxconn had to install suicide nets tinyurl.com/yjcf8rk8

doctorow.medium.comThe enshittification of tech jobsOur last line of defense has fallen.

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In other words, AI is a convenient excuse for CEOs to fire 5–10% of tech staff, scare the rest into compliance (“fall in line or be fired”), slash salaries and benefits, and offload the work of those laid off onto those who remain. They also may rehire without employment contract.

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