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In the #BadEconomy
> Getting Older under Capitalism https://www.anarchistfederation.net/getting-older-under-capitalism/
In the #BadEconomy, #KentuckyProud edition. And before any of you free market capitalist fuckbagels come mewling, if you can't/won't pay a living wage, you should be out of business. Period.
> Kentucky Minimum Wage Now Half its Previous Peak, and Below Poverty Line https://kypolicy.org/kentucky-minimum-wage-now-half-its-previous-peak-and-below-poverty-line/
As of this week, it has been 16 years since the minimum…
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?
What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws…
The FlytrapInfomigrants
"Vendanges de la honte" en Champagne : prison ferme pour les trois prévenus accusés de traite d’êtres humains
https://mcinformactions.net/vendanges-de-la-honte-en-champagne-prison-ferme-pour-les-trois-prevenus-accuses
#migrants #immigration #vignobles #Champagne #exploitation
Spanish police free more than 100 women from a trafficking ring.
Spanish police said on Tuesday 37 people were arrested in connection with a sophisticated criminal organisation dedicated to sexual exploitation.
At least 162 women have been freed, while dozens of suspects were arrested after Spanish police dismantled a human trafficking ring that lured women into the country before pressuring them into prostitution.
Spanish police said on Tuesday 37 people were arrested…
EuronewsResearch exposes structural #exploitation of #migrant #workers in UK domestic and food delivery sectors
https://superdiversity.net/2025/07/17/research-exposes-structural-exploitation-of-migrant-workers-in-uk-domestic-and-food-delivery-sectors/
Reports document the lived experiences of migrant workers…
The Age of Superdiversity
EqualTimes
Les travailleuses des fleurs turques contestent un modèle économique qui encourage les profits au détriment des personnes
https://mcinformactions.net/les-travailleuses-des-fleurs-turques-contestent-un-modele-economique-qui
#Fleuriste #exploitation #maltraitances #agressionssexuelles
"Tear Gas: the most effective agent used by employers to persuade their employees that the interests of capital and labor are identical." T-Bone Slim (I.W.W./Wobbly)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Slim
#Capitalism #exploitation #RichPeoplesYachtMoney
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#frombelow #labormovement #organize #rankandfile #solidarity #unions
Scale’s dominance would pose a growing challenge to companies that sought to follow a different model and pay living wages.
— Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
#Scale #ScaleAI #work #worker #exploitation
From the way they [Scale AI] treated us, I realized that their approach was to drain each user as much as possible, … and then dispose of them and bring new users in.
—Ricardo Huggines, in Empire of AI by Karen Hao
#ScaleAI #exploitation
We [Karen Hao and Andrea Paola Hernández] found through a spreadsheet the company [Scale AI] left public that … workers who started with earnings of forty dollars a week were soon making less than six dollars or nothing at all. …the company…reverted to its standard operations, doling out tasks in a piecemeal fashion with no standard or guaranteed hours.
—Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
#ScaleAI #work #worker #exploitation
Infomigrants
Italie : une filiale du géant français du luxe LVMH épinglée pour exploitation de travailleurs immigrés
https://mcinformactions.net/italie-une-filiale-du-geant-francais-du-luxe-lvmh-epinglee-pour-exploitation-de
#Italie #LVMH #LoroPiana #migrants #immigration #exploitation
It is poor, in the Global South, with a government hungry for foreign investment from richer countries. All of these are a part of Kenya’s legacy of colonialism, which has left it without well-developed institutions to protect its citizens from exploitation and often in the throes of economic crisis, both of which make circumstances ripe for overseas companies to find an immiserated pool of labor that will do piecework under almost any conditions.
—Karen Hao, Empire of AI
#kenya #exploitation
It’s no coincidence that Kenya became home to what would ultimately turn into one of the most exploitative forms of labor that went into the creation of ChatGPT. Kenya was among the top destinations that Silicon Valley had been outsourcing its dirtiest work to for years.
—Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
#chatgpt #openai #kenya #work #exploitation