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Just a modern version of the "shape-ups" or hiring lines from the Great Depression. Just as workers lined up each day back then for a chance at temporary jobs,
by OccamsMirror 2y ago
Just a modern version of the "shape-ups" or hiring lines from the Great Depression. Just as workers lined up each day back then for a chance at temporary jobs, the scenario I described with people queuing at Amazon Mechanical Turk offices mirrors that.
Of course you wouldn't literally line up at a building, you'd just go and sign up from the comfort of your old laptop on the dining room table: https://www.mturk.com/get-started https://www.mturk.com/get-started
The reality is the "gig economy" is the digitally disrupted version of job lines. We're already there.
- bamboozled 2y agoI mean look how great things have been since then, since the great depression? If we're already in it, we're already one step closer to the post depression era utopia for the 30s and 40s. You've made a strange comparison though because the great depression had little to do with technological advancement?
- OccamsMirror 2y agoIt wasn’t that deep a comparison. I just liked the imagery of people lining up for work outside “Mechanical Turk Centers”. It’s more a nod to the 25% unemployment of the Great Depression.