Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by debacle on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:44AM
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Nobody moves for $30k a year.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by skyyler on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:49AM
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Are you serious? I know people that have moved for less. Making absolute statements like that doesn't do much for anyone.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by sandworm101 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:51AM
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Lol. Ever seen a migrant camp? Ever talked to a seasonal farm laborer? People will literally walk across continents for 30k/years.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by jumbopapa on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:58AM
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Sounds like $30k is an improvement in their lives then, so is it really "too little"?
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by lifeformed on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:40AM
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The word is "exploitive". Desperate people will do things because they have to. If I pay a homeless person $20 to humiliate himself, is that a fair transaction, or an exploitation of the asymmetry between our conditions?
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by Spooky23 on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:31PM
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To the chubby engineer type in 2019, yes. Make the drunk dwarf dance, itβs a free market.
When recession strikes and the gravy train ends, the same folks will be wearing Che Guevara T-shirts crying about unfairness.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by ekianjo on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @08:08PM
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There is no obligation for anyone to do anything. Do you assume that there is no free will and we are all like robots driven by short term profits?
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by pizza234 on Thursday June 20, 2019 @08:01AM
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That doesn't answer the parent's question.
If you call 20$, for a person who owes nothing and is probably starving, a "short term profit", you've very likely never experienced how is it to live in poor conditions.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by JauntyHatAngle on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:17AM
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It is very possible to "improve" somebody's life and still be abusing your power over them and causing them damage in other ways.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by vageli on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @06:59PM
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> Sounds like $30k is an improvement in their lives then, so is it really "too little"?
Being put in prison is an improvement for many individuals in so far as they are guaranteed three square meals and a warm place to lay their head. Would you seriously argue that that's an improvement that is worth the cost to the individual?
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by bluntfang on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @11:40AM
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yes.
Re:Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions
by zild3d on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @08:29PM
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That's really absurd to say, do you realize that $30k/yr is in the top 4% globally?
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/get-involved/how-rich-am-i/?...
That assumes perfect knowledge. As mentioned in the article, these moderators often do not understand what they are getting into until long after they have committed to the job. Once you have quit a previous job, moved, setup your new life, only then do you realize your new "brand consultant" job means watching kittens die all day.
Jobs like this also open persons to realities that we normal keep tucked away deep in our brains. We all know that cops don't investigate most reported crimes, but that doesn't come up very often for us. A facebook moderator sees the crimes, sees the lack of response by the police or anyone else, every minute. Repeatedly, every minute. Nobody can appreciate what this does to ones' mental state until you have been there.