Seeing a huge uptick in tracking “their” people. [https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/tech/amazon-france-fine-worker-surveillance/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/tech/amazon-france-fine-worker-surveillance/index.html)

It’s becoming inhumane. They’re treating people like cattle or machines. And AI will be leveraged for even greater control and concentration of power. Sadly, most of them that use these tactics pit everyone against each other, using up people then casting them aside when they grow too old or broken, which comes sooner and sooner every year, while the politicians that support them keep wanting to raise retirement ages.

We’re not “their” cattle. What comes next is clear, forced heart rate monitors, maybe tagging people’s ears, tracking all of their metrics via sophisticated AI to determine who can be run to death for the longest and when to cull the herd. And by insulating themselves, leveraging AI, they don’t even need to look at the fallout from it all.

This path we’re on, this trajectory leads to nothing good.

Edit: We’re tired of living like this. We can look up and see that we’ve created immense wealth, but they don’t care, they just want “more and faster”, they don’t even think about us like humans anymore. Just what they can take from us, what we can do for them. I’ve been at this over 30 years, and I can tell you, I’ve seen it, the wealthiest of the wealthy and their heirs who feel even more deserving and superior will literally watch people that made them that way die in dire poverty and are completely unfazed by it. It’s only worsened in all those years, and it isn’t going to change unless the next generation changes it, and it isn’t going to change because we ask for a fairer share and humane, sustainable treatment. My generation, and our parents are all broken by it. We’re too old and tired now. If you want something better, you have to make it happen.

Make it happen.

by agreeablederivative

12 comments

  1. Nothing new…serfdom, Industrial Revolution, etc. Maybe the technology is different but someone in a 1800’s workhouse or 1900’s “Potterville” felt the same way.

  3. Don’t have kids.

    Quit your jobs.

    Live as cheaply as possible.

    Eat the rich.

  5. It isn’t personal

    Labour is considered a “production input”, nothing more

    It’s math. It’s a company acting within its “legal rights”

    The answer is to leave the country as many have already done

  6. The only time workers felt appreciated was after the black plague.

  7. Makes sense if we didn’t want to be cattle, we should have been born in the right family

  8. CEO: “I pay your salary, so you belong to me.”
    Worker: “How much is my salary?”
    CEO: “About 1/1000th of mine.”
    Worker: “That doesn’t seem fair.”
    CEO: “1000 of you are worth one of me. That’s why I’m in charge.”
    Worker: “What do you do to earn it?”
    CEO: “Make sure you don’t get paid more, to appease the shareholders. You see, technically we both belong to the shareholders, but from their perspective, I create much more value.”
    Worker: “But I do the actual work.”
    CEO: “Shut up or you’re fired.”

  12. People have “been tracked” since the beginning of time. Movies depict slaves being whipped for motivation. Today’s tracking is used in yearly performance evaluations to determine raises and rankings. Tracking aids in that effort.

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