• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    2·
    47 minutes ago

    “We’re living in the future. I’ll tell you how I know. I read it in the paper. Fifteen years ago.”

  • Wilco@lemmy.zip
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Hmmm … the technology that is literally driving people insane so a few investors can make advertising money

  • brewery@feddit.uk
    19·
    20 hours ago

    How about

    • reinventing trains but worse
    • rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
    • we deliver everything but once we take over it’ll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
    • we deliver any food by people who can’t drive (for slave wages)
    • we’ll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
    • we’ll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist
    • acantharea@lemmy.world
      7·
      21 hours ago

      Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!

      Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation via distributed outsourcing. Why even pay minimum wage in the US?

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    191·
    1 day ago

    Where’s “video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them”?

    Where’s “removal of a common phone feature, because if you don’t buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you’ll be okay with a pair of raycons”?

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
      8·
      20 hours ago

      Just because the legal system is bad doesn’t make an illegal system better. You fix the legal problem.

      "I can’t find a cab doesn’t mean the solution is unregulated gig workers.
      “Don’t worry if an independent contractor rapes you, just give him 1 star and the free market will fix the problem.”

      Think of how much money Starbucks would save if they made their employees provide their own coffee machines, beans and paper cups. That’s where it’s going.

      • CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one
        11·
        17 hours ago

        “Don’t worry if an independent contractor rapes you, just give him 1 star and the free market will fix the problem.”

        Would love to hear other perspectives but I personally feel much safer in an Uber where I know the entire ride is being tracked by a corporation that won’t risk its reputation to retain a potentially creepy driver.

        • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
          5·
          15 hours ago

          It’s the other way around. An employer is legally responsible for an employee’s actions while working. Uber says, “They’re not employees, they just use our app.” So Uber has no incentive to carefully vet drivers. It’s only after an Uber driver rapes someone that they kick them off their system.

    • merdaverse@lemmy.zip
      61·
      21 hours ago

      About cab companies, not really. Often times they operate as a cartel. But they do have better working conditions for drivers and less precariousness

      • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        20 hours ago

        Otoh, rideshare offers far more flexibility for workers. And they created legitimate value via the user-friendliness of their apps. And as much as it is bemoaned, the star rating system made taking a cab far more pleasant.

        I’m honestly quite confused by this idea that every job in the economy must provide the job-holder with full and unequivocal economic security. In my view, many jobs simply are gigs. They need to get done, but the nature of the work means that they will never be a super-consistent source of income. And that’s okay - many people are quite happy to piece together their income from multiple sources in order to have more flexibility.

        • merdaverse@lemmy.zip
          6·
          20 hours ago

          Cool, I’m sure when your job becomes a gig you will enjoy the extra “flexibility”. I have this very radical idea that people doing something that other people need, for a large portion of their available working hours, should have economic security.

          • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            20 hours ago

            I’m a concert rigger. My job is already a gig. I like it. I just got back from spending 3 months in mexico. Texted my boss “hey, I’m back in town”, and he started putting me on shifts again.

            • merdaverse@lemmy.zip
              4·
              19 hours ago

              Flexibility is only useful if you already make a decent wage and don’t have a megacorporation constantly trying to steal your wages and avoid local regulation so it can shit on your rights. Otherwise it’s just an euphemism for being a treated like a disposable cog.

              • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
                12·
                19 hours ago

                Idk dude, me and my coworkers seem to like it alright. It sounds like you’re projecting some personal issues here

                • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  21 minutes ago

                  Idk dude, me and my coworkers seem to like it alright. It sounds like you’re projecting some personal issues here

                  As opposed to you, who is projecting your enjoyment of a gig job that doesn’t require you to pay money to be able to do your job with someone who does have to pay literally every time they try to work. I wonder if that, and the obvious differences in pay and work environment, would make a difference in how the two workers think about their jobs…

          • blarghly@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            20 hours ago

            In my view, it is more the difference between something that is pretty good vs something that is perfect. After all, supposing you are getting paid the same hourly rate, would you rather get paid for 20 hours of work, or 0?

            Taking the example of ridesharing, for example - if you are looking for a job, and it is all restricted to traditional cab companies, they might not be able to afford to pay you full time plus benefits to work for them, so you get $0 working as a cabbie. And the result is that there are fewer people driving cabs, and therefore higher prices for cabs, and therefore fewer people taking cabs (and maybe driving drunk). The result of requiring full time pay for all rideshare drivers isn’t that all the drivers get full time pay - it is that a lot of them get laid off.

            In either the case of having UBI or not having it, presumably you would prefer to be making some income over no income?

        • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          19 hours ago

          And they created legitimate value via the user-friendliness of their apps.

          What?! WTF talks like this? This reads like it was written by a marketroid.

            • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              14 minutes ago

              You say you understand basic economics, but you don’t understand why “every job in the economy must provide the job-holder with full and unequivocal economic security”? Lol, sure you do friend.

              I might recommend you do some reading and maybe you’ll realize that these gig jobs are just a new way to do wealth extraction from the poor. Between giving no economic security, low wages and no benefits, this is just yet another way to implement a form of neofudalism.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
      43·
      20 hours ago

      I can’t help but feel like all of this is propaganda.

      Like what’s with people all of a sudden defending Cab Companies, Hotel Chains, the Central Bank (or your countries equivalent), or Copyright law.

      People rightly complained about all these things but now actually those are all somehow good

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
          42·
          18 hours ago

          The replacements aren’t actually worse though.

          Using Uber/Lyft is far easier and more convenient for all parties involved. (Not saying that equates to morally good though)

          Using AirBNB for people to vacation in or whatever is a much better experience potentially for a tenant then the sub-par standards of hotels.

          Cryptocurreny provides freedom of exchange in a digital way while still having an overall ledger to prevent fraud. (Doesn’t stop people from getting scammed but the same is true for cash)

          Copyright laws basically always majorly benefit the corporation who owns it rather then an individual who actually created the thing. I also was a pirate in my younger years and in general believe information should be free and peoples needs should be met so they don’t have to necessarily try to profit off what should be an artistic expression.

          I don’t think AI will actually replace creativity, some will use it to churn out garbage but that was already true for existing tools for whatever art form you might prefer. A simple example is electronic music, a lot of musicians look down on electronic music artists because it’s not “real music”.

          Edit: Fundamentally the issue/complaints from many are the user experience AND the problems with the corporations doing shitty corp stuff. I feel zero empathy for the prior companies that didn’t innovate at all and let their monopoly power print them money at the expense of the customer via corporate lobbying and such, however I’m under no illusion that the replacements are any better aside from their user experience lmao.

          • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            7 minutes ago

            The replacements aren’t actually worse though.

            How does the flavoraid taste? You’re drinking straight from the pitcher it seems, because most of your arguments aren’t rooted in reality.

            Using Uber/Lyft is far easier and more convenient for all parties involved

            Except if anything happens, then they find all sorts of loopholes to try to get out of it since they’re not a cab company. Any more, the cab companies have updated their methods and are trying to compete with the rideshare apps (at least around me)

            Using AirBNB for people to vacation in or whatever is a much better experience potentially for a tenant then the sub-par standards of hotels.

            AHAHAHAHA, have you not tried AirBNB since 2020? Hotels are cheaper, don’t have bullshit cleanup fees, and you never have to worry about freaky shit happening with the owner.

            Cryptocurreny provides freedom of exchange in a digital way while still having an overall ledger to prevent fraud

            Yeah, this is just so laughable I don’t even really want to respond to it. Ask the people who get their keyphrase stolen how easy it is to get their money back when it gets stolen. Come back to me when crypto can actually prevent and reverse fraud. I don’t expect to hear from you again lol.

            I don’t think AI will actually replace creativity, some will use it to churn out garbage but that was already true for existing tools for whatever art form you might prefer.

            This is far from the worst problem with AI, well after the issues with hallucinations, poisoning the internet/search engines, and the environmental effects.

          • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
            21·
            15 hours ago

            while still having an overall ledger to prevent fraud.

            That’s not crypto.

            If you get scammed using an old fashioned credit card, the credit card company yoinks your money back for you from the scammer.

            If you transfer crypto it’s gone.

            • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              1 hour ago

              I literally said it doesn’t prevent scamming just like cash. Did people abhor cash because if you got scammed you couldn’t just get it back by asking the bank? (Which also is not really the only thing that can happen btw, sometimes banks just take the hit if it’s already been withdrawn or similar and choose to make you whole or not) My father had his bank account drained twice because of Zelle malware and the bank nearly didn’t give him his money back the second time.

              The overall supply of most crypto is known, and unless it’s a privacy chain transactions are generally visible on the network rather then being completely hidden from view like other currencies.

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
          21·
          18 hours ago

          Yes and no, when laws stop being about what’s right/wrong and start being written for the benefit of entrneched corporations and their interests…