I hope whoever’s running that company gets cancer and dies.
Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now, the company says it imagines an “Uber-type of setup” to fill their ranks, with gig workers logging in remotely to argue with customers from the comfort of their own homes.
So they’re using their spectacular failure as a chance to exploit their new ‘employees’ via the gig economy.
Fuck them. They have learned nothing about respect or decency, and I hope they continue to crash and burn.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 10 months ago
b3an@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Klarna sucks balls. “We’re your friend! We help you buy things!*”
*APR 69%; yearly fee: Left limb. Firstborn children no longer accepted.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 10 months ago
Oh my. I never experienced that high of an APR.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Payday loans in the states are horrifying. It got so bad that the US government stepped in to limit the interest rates they could charge military members.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 10 months ago
But not Klarna? Right? Thats what I meant. I know about payday loans. But I didn’t know if Klarna had that high of APR.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And how many of these Uberserfs will be located in developed countries making good salaries? None, you say?
taladar@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Probably depends on the language in the target market, a lot of European languages are not that common in countries with cheap labor.
TipRing@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I stopped reading at Financial Tech startup. From that alone I know what kind of people we’re dealing with here.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Klara? The usury company? The “preys on kids who failed the Algebra 2 test on interest” company?
crusa187@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Something about FinTech…it just attracts the worst possible people.
Almacca@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Because they’re people that produce nothing but still think they should be rich.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
So they’re using their spectacular failure as a chance to exploit their new ‘employees’ via the gig economy.
To the ruling class this was always the appeal to big business and is precisely why they were willing to make such massive bets on a fundamentally broken technology.
The cherry on top is tech work used to be a threat to big businesses, especially big tech companies, because society considered the tech work to be a respectable job. Big businesses/oligarchs saw this as an obstacle to destroying tech work as a decent paying career and A.I. was the perfect tool of propaganda to remove the obstacle because even most tech workers bought the lies hook line and sinker.
Saleh@feddit.org 10 months ago
Loans for consumer products should be outlawed. Nothing good ever comes out of them.