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Imagine getting a job at a call center, but it's work from home. Unfortunately though, your work requires you to be present in the "metaverse", meaning you have

Imagine getting a job at a call center, but it's work from home. Unfortunately though, your work requires you to be present in the "metaverse", meaning you have to wear stupid goggles that allow your employer and Meta to control everything you see and hear for 8 hours a day. The advantage for the employer is clear: no need to pay for an office, but you also don't have to trust your employees to do their work at home. The advantage for Meta is clear as well: realize a virtually infinite profit margin on virtual clothing and environments in our nightmare late-stage capitalist version of a company store, and bombard you with hyper-targeted advertising. I can't really emphasize enough how much the future imagined by this product sucks. I don't know how somebody can see this and, in good conscience, continue to work there.

artificial 4y ago
The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Meanwhile 5 years ago in China they're using cameras to monitor pupils in the classroom to see who is paying attention [0] and more recently intrusive desktop monitoring [1] also something used by some of the gig workers like Upwork [2]? The demand is there, people like their shipping updates with packages. It's pretty bleak tbh. [0] https://www.engadget.com/general-motors-ultium-battery-more-than-ev-gm-energy-100022884.html https://www.engadget.com/general-motors-ultium-battery-more-... [1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/China-s-tech-workers-pushed- https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/China-s-tech... to-limits-by-surveillance-software [2] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/upwork-freelancers-work-diary-keystrokes-screenshot https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/upwork...