#algorithmicwagediscrimination — Public Fediverse posts
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Your boss wants to use surveillance data to cut your wages (06 Apr 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/06/empiricism-washing/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/10/zero-sum-zero-hours/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Rage Against the (Algorithmic Management) Machine (25 Sep 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/25/roboboss/
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Think of labor law: as #VeenaDubal writes, gig-work companies practice #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, turning your paycheck into a slot machine that pays out more when you are more selective about which jobs you take, and which then docks your pay by tiny increments as you become less discriminating about answering the app's call:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men
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Like Lyft, Uber practices #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, #VeenaDubal's term describing the illegal practice of offering workers different payouts for the same work. Uber's algorithm seeks out "pickers" who are choosy about which rides they take, and converts them to "ants" (who take every ride offered) by paying them more for the same job, until they drop all their other gigs, whereupon the algorithm cuts their pay back to the rates paid to ants:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men
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