crabmusket"The US used trade deals to force nearly every country in the world to adopt the IP laws that make enshittification possible, and maybe even inevitable. As Trump burns these trade deals to the ground, the rest of the world has an unprecedented opportunity to retaliate against American bullying by getting rid of these laws and producing the tools, devices and services that can protect every tech user (including Americans) from being ripped off by US Big Tech companies."
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Ferdi Magellan@crabmusket Holy shit! In the USA the poorer you are the less they pay you. Why isn’t this illegal?
“A January 2025 report from Groundwork Collective documents how increasingly nurses in the USA are hired through gig apps – "Uber for nurses” – so nurses never know from one day to the next whether they're going to work, or how much they'll get paid.
There's something high-tech going on here with those nurses' wages. These nursing apps – a cartel of three companies, Shiftkey, Shiftmed and Carerev – can play all kinds of games with labor pricing.
“Before Shiftkey offers a nurse a shift, it purchases that worker's credit history from a data-broker. Specifically, it pays to find out how much credit-card debt the nurse is carrying, and whether it is overdue.
“The more desperate the nurse's financial straits are, the lower the wage on offer. Because the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come and do the gruntwork of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying.”
Violet Madder
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@FerdiMagellan @crabmusket That's horrendous exploitation and ought to be illegal.
Scott Grimmett@FerdiMagellan @crabmusket Nurses in multiple employments spread covid19 between nursing homes in Australia in 2020. Just saying…
Jason Bowen 🇺🇦@FerdiMagellan @crabmusket Capitalist oligarchy. It's great.
Aaron@FerdiMagellan As someone who's been working in tech for twenty years, including a long stint in software development:
If I meet the developers who implemented this I'd likely punch them directly in the face. They had a choice and picked the wrong one.
@crabmusket
If I meet the developers who implemented this I'd likely punch them directly in the face. They had a choice and picked the wrong one.
@crabmusket
Andrew Zonenberg@FerdiMagellan @crabmusket Because the ones who write the laws probably own stock in these companies. Or are taking campaign funding from them.
Paleva@SPDde @dielinke @gruene_berlin
So that is what’s waiting for us when letting #cdu do whatever they want…. #merz copies trumps political style as far as he can go. That’s nothing we want to see coming😨
Darrin West@FerdiMagellan @crabmusket If only we still lived in a country where the government enforced constitutional laws against discrimination, and other laws against bad labor practices. Then there might still be a department where this garbage could be reported and acted upon. I wonder what would happen if such a story were to reach the ears of Republican representatives? Would they wake up to the injustice of the ongoing illegal purge? What if it were couched in a Bible verse about a laborer being worthy of their hire (1 Timothy)? What (discarded?) tools would be brought to bear?
keithzg@FerdiMagellan @crabmusket And meanwhile Americans will scaremonger about China's "social credit scores", as if far worse shit like this isn't being done by private entities in America (and allied countries)