Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day Content Moderators

Re:Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day ... by ceejayoz on Monday October 24, 2022 @07:55AM (#33315547)

There's a vast gap between $10/day and a SRE's salary, and minimum wage doesn't sound reasonable for something that's this traumatizing.

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Re:Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day ... by kdmsk on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:35AM (#33315860)

You get paid depending on how hard you are to replace. This kind of labour can be done by basically anybody.

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Re:Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day ... by ceejayoz on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:37AM (#33315876)

Sure; companies have long gotten away from dumping their externalities out on the societies that host them. Criticism of this sort of thing isn't arguing that it's not legal; the argument is that it's bad.

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Re:Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day ... by micromacrofoot on Monday October 24, 2022 @09:35AM (#33316424)

As Amazon is discovering with delivery drivers, at one point you start running out of "basically anybody"

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Re:Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day ... by Bakary on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:52AM (#33318332)

Yes, so the conclusion is that political agitation is necessary if the goal is to change those working conditions

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