Re:YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging...
by mbostleman on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:23PM
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But these are not poor people. At $37k annually they are in the middle third of US income and substantially above the poverty level.
The article linked below profiles a man that "worries that he will not be able to find another job that pays as well as this one does". This indicates to me that all else being equal, they are already offering a premium.
Nor does it sound like he is either desperate or naive. He is well aware of market compensation and he is struggling to decide on the tradeoffs.
Re:YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging...
by wpietri on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:35PM
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Oh? What's that relative to your income? Because my point isn't about absolute dollars. It's about America's long-running tendency toward exploitation of people with less money.
There is a sufficient supply of desperate and/or naive people that the market equilibrium is significant and lasting harm to humans. If companies won't solve that problem on their own, then the alternative is regulation. Given the history of physically dangerous jobs over the last century or so, I expect regulation is the likely outcome.