veb is referring to this paragraph from the beginning of the article: " Working people who live below the poverty line are particularly afraid to say no to the

veb is referring to this paragraph from the beginning of the article: " Working people who live below the poverty line are particularly afraid to say no to these unusual schedules. They may have no one to say no to, anyway—those schedules might have been created by computers, rather than human managers, in the hopes of saving a corporation money. Many companies now use data and algorithms to schedule employees so fewer hours will be spent sitting around. The software doesn’t care if a shift falls in the middle of the night, or that it might tear a big hole in an employee’s family life."