#laborexploitation — Public Fediverse posts

"Rent A Human and other platforms like it will benefit from a technological shift that won’t change the current structure of labor and class relations — they will turbocharge them. Existing platforms such as Taskrabbit still require time, effort, and attention to delegate each task. Rent A Human, however, liberates the wealthy from the constraint of time and attention.

This relationship allows for a new dynamic — managerial compression — enabled by the digitized platform and AI. Your run-of-the-mill princeling living on the Upper West Side or Bel Air, or in whatever silk-stocking enclave he calls home, can wake up and instruct an AI agent to “complete this week’s to-do list.” However much Taskrabbit and its ilk have made easier the task of summoning vassals to attend to whatever errand and chore, they still require discrete requests and commands. That small expenditure of time has now been removed. Digital grandees can now instruct their AI agent to peel their grapes, wait in lines overnight for new sneaker drops, secure the last gluten-free scone from their favorite café, and test new oat milks for froth — all before leaving for Pilates — with little more than a spoken command."

https://jacobin.com/2026/02/artificial-intelligence-ai-labor-exploitation

#AI #AIAgents #RentAHuman #WageSlavery #LaborExploitation

This #documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a #poverty stricken father from Central #Mexico along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern #Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 #MigrantWorkers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/el_contrato/

#ForeignWorkers #Labourers #FarmWorkers #WorkersRights #HumanRights #Racism #Discrimination #Canada #CanadianFilm #NFB #LaborExploitation #CDNpoli

JUDGE JURY EXECUTIONER
EU Law revision — border guards decide asylum claimants

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/10/01/eu-law-revision-border-guards-decide-asylum-claimants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eu-law-revision-border-guards-decide-asylum-claimants

EU ministers are set to approve a change to existing law that would essentially allow border guards to decide who has the right to seek asylum.
#EU #BorderGuard #DecidesAsylum #WarOnMigrants #Fascism #LaborExploitation