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“Sign this or starve” isn’t much of a stretch when you think about it
by thejazzman 6mo ago
“Sign this or starve” isn’t much of a stretch when you think about it
- 0x3f 6mo agoAs if Meta employees live on the cusp of starving.
- ceejayoz 6mo agohttps://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/854998616/in-settlement-facebook-to-pay-52-million-to-content-moderators-with-ptsd https://www.npr.org/2020/05/12/854998616/in-settlement-faceb... > Some of the content moderators were earning $28,800 a year, the technology news site The Verge found last year. In this particular case, the legal costs are probably pretty ruinous.
- 0x3f 6mo agoI think you'll find the person in question's title is quite far from content moderator.
- ceejayoz 6mo agoI think you'll find that's why the "in this particular case" line is there.
- 0x3f 6mo agoNobody forced her to break her contract and thus come up against that. She would have been perfectly fine on the leftovers from ~$500k/y while searching for her next job. The parent makes out like she simply had to get the extra money, lest she starve to death. Which is patently ridiculous.
- thejazzman 6mo agoI agree with you there, but I think that may be the only reason this app isn’t cast in a darker light. I can also imagine that with SF living expenses that there are a lot of people without a big safety net I don’t really mean for this to be related to any one person. The general population doesn’t have a choice but to sign terms and get the severance , in general, in America
- burnt-resistor 6mo agoIt's called a Hobson's choice.