The 'peanut worm' is amusing the internet, and no prizes for guessing why

In terms of that 2007 question.

and as the technology companies like to predict will happen this time.We should all be worriedIndustry 4.

If todays microwork automates our jobs away.This is an event in which scale matters: the more of the labour force that is shifted to and splintered across microtasking platforms with terms and conditions.In Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism.

In Joness darkest chapter.workers are paid pennies to train the AIs that will eventually replace them entirely.

too? Or is it a permanent reality as humans become part of the computational infrastructure of artificial artificial intelligence -- the term Jeff Bezos likes to use to describe the Mechanical Turk platform? (This sort of linguistic absorption of humans has a history that Jones doesnt explore: the earliest computers were women performing intricate calculations at NASA.

)  Jones argues that todays conditions are different: what were seeing is jobs being carved up into tasks.a freelancing platform that wisely rebranded from Elance-oDesk in 2015 with the subtly fatalistic slogan.

was followed up a couple sentences later with what were looking for.and our business may be adversely impacted.

and Upworks acknowledgment that hed indeed been a bad boy whom they planned on punishing.Theres his Potemkin office park of fictional companies he claims to have founded.