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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by elzbardico on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:51PM (#35630430)
The middle-class has always had a cavalier attitude about labor-saving innovations that made the lower class unemployable. Now that they are in chopping block, I predict that we will see an increasing interest on Marxism amongst the laptop class.
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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by fundad on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:48PM (#35632495)
We're the vacuum cleaner class. We can't afford a maid but can afford the nicest vacuum cleaner in the store.
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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by tinglymintyfrsh on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:44PM (#35633686)
The iRobot vacuum cleaner class. ;@)
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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by fundad on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:21PM (#35647309)
The Amazon SpiRobot
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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by stinkytaco on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:07PM (#35632671)
I started to really notice this during the pandemic, when pieces about tracking software for work-from-home employees started to pop up. Being constantly measured is nothing new to service workers, call centers, delivery drivers or any number of other industries, but it felt like only when it started to impact middle class people who read think pieces did it really get traction as an issue.
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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by tinglymintyfrsh on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:43PM (#35633678)
In America, it won't happen because they'll believe it's their fault as ashamed, aspirational billionaires. Americans are nothing like the French.
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