Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• TipRing@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I stopped reading at Financial Tech startup. From that alone I know what kind of people we’re dealing with here.

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  • crusa187@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Something about FinTech…it just attracts the worst possible people.

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    • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because they’re people that produce nothing but still think they should be rich.

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  • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Klara? The usury company? The “preys on kids who failed the Algebra 2 test on interest” company?

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• b3an@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Klarna sucks balls. “We’re your friend! We help you buy things!*”

  *APR 69%; yearly fee: Left limb. Firstborn children no longer accepted.

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  • Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh my. I never experienced that high of an APR.

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Flex Loans offer borrowers up to $4,000 at 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of people in debt that can land them in court.

      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.

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      • Cocopanda@futurology.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And how many of these Uberserfs will be located in developed countries making good salaries? None, you say?

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  • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Probably depends on the language in the target market, a lot of European languages are not that common in countries with cheap labor.

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• Saleh@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Loans for consumer products should be outlawed. Nothing good ever comes out of them.

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• CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hope whoever’s running that company gets cancer and dies.

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