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Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention... by imwillofficial on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:11PM (#27665409)
This shows a distinct lack of understanding of how crappy it can be when you're poor.

It takes awhile for a new job to cut that first check. In America, usually around a month.

That month can be insanely scary with no money and mouths to feed.

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Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention... by sneak on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:50PM (#27666041)
That's why welfare, food assistance programs, and unemployment exist. Amazon (and every other employer) pays in to those programs by law when employing people.
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Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention... by bellyfullofbac on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:37PM (#27668519)
Hah, is this naivete, or just obtuseness?

And the CEOs or their lobbyists go to state and federal capitols to lobby for destruction of these programs, or "donate" to politicians' election campaigns with "wink wink, you know what we want."...

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Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention... by imwillofficial on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:15AM (#27676048)
These programs also take awhile to get money into the account.

For the poor, losing a job arbitrarily, with no protections, even cultural, can be massively life disrupting.

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