Work without the worker By Phil Jones - book review
2021 Phil Jones book’s is about the ‘’techno-spectacle’’ of A.I and automation in general, it expose the harsh reality behind Silicon Valley's rhetoric on automation. What we discover is a world of exploiting refugees and other racialized members of the relative surplus.
With Jones' essay, we have a view of how Microtasks disfigure human development offering only a hyperexploitative vision.
Big tech is appropriating the work of the global south as Jones put it “Data training rarely takes place in-house. Instead, companies like Tesla outsource the work to the Global South. In 2018 more than 75 percent of this data was labeled by Venezuelans facing the most desperate circumstances.”