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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by insane_dreamer on Sunday December 22, 2024 @10:29AM (#42486918)
at least in the US, those jobs - doctors, cops, firefighters, first responders - are well compensated (not sure about prison guards), certainly compared to content moderators who are at the bottom of the totem pole in an org like FB
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by caymanjim on Sunday December 22, 2024 @10:58AM (#42487118)
What does compensation have to do with it? Is someone who stares at thousands of traumatizing, violent images every day going to be less traumatized if they're getting paid more?
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by t-3 on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:15AM (#42487237)
Yes, they will be much more able to deal with the consequences of that trauma than someone who gets a pittance to do the same thing. A low-wage peon won't even be able to afford therapy if they need it.
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by unaindz on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:29PM (#42487774)
At least they can pay for therapy and afford to stop working or find another job
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by BoxFour on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:38PM (#42487831)
Shamefully, first responders are not well compensated - usually it's ~$20 an hour.
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by kevin_thibedeau on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:06PM (#42487997)
I've lived places where the cops make $100k+. It all depends on location.
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by BoxFour on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:20PM (#42488071)
Sorry - I'm specifically referring to EMTs and Paramedics, who usually make somewhere in the realm of $18-25 an hour.
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by insane_dreamer on Sunday December 22, 2024 @09:20PM (#42491140)
Yikes that’s pretty shameful.
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by stickfigure on Sunday December 22, 2024 @11:04PM (#42491655)
In my district, all the firefighers are volunteers (including me). Yeah, we deal with some crappy medical calls and sometimes deaths. It's nowhere near as dramatic as the non-first-responders in this thread seem to think.
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