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AI companies try to pay staff in AI tokens, not money (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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I owe my SOUL․md to the company store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLERkM2TJbw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
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[–] 110 points 8 months ago (13 children)

This is not in any way a “new” idea. It’s company scrip — a company’s own made-up money that you can only spend in the company store.

At least you could buy food with company script. Tech bros have really invented company script, but worse.

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  • [–] 43 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This is exactly how the banana massacre in Colombia took place 100 years ago. Workers were being paid in United Fruit Company bonds, which caused revolts and protests, the US government threatened to invade to protect the company's interests, so the Colombian government deployed the army to suppress the protests and murdered thousands of farmers.

    This still shapes Colombian politics to this day, has appeared in A Hundred Years of Solitude, and has absolutely helped power the leftist movements in the country since. The parliament and president have constantly referenced this instance in recent years too as examples of American neocolonialism.

    It's a tale as old as time.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    it’s amazing what knowing even a lick of history can do, hey?

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago*

    Don't worry, the Colombian right wing has done its absolute best to victim blame the farmers, or to diminish the atrocity or to claim it was a necessary sacrifice.

    Meanwhile the Colombian guerrillas did their absolute best to shit on the popular movements that fueled them initially by allying themselves with drug traffickers and committing atrocities themselves against rural civilian populations.

    So basically the Colombian civilians of the 20th century were sandwiched between an overzealous fascist right wing and a violent and reckless left wing.

    Nowadays both sides are politically mostly rhetorical and the left wing is far less violent while the right wing is more careful about their image after losing elections and Congress seats to the left.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Just a heads up that its "scrip" not "script" :3

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  • [+] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    We didn’t have many worker protections prior to this president and they just completed the biggest deregulation in history by far gutting the few agencies that investigated violations of labor law. Thiel, Karp and Musk have been very clear about their intentions to destroy democracy and replace it with feudalism supported by big tech. The EU will follow if you don’t stop supporting fascists because these tech companies have already infiltrated your governments.

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