• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      10 hours ago

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

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      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 true lucrative appeal of A.I. 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 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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      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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        Klarna? The usury company? The “preys on kids who failed the Algebra 2 test on interest” company?

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

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