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Companies are now using your credit history, past-due accounts, browsing data, and social media accounts to figure out the absolute lowest salary you'll accept. Algorithmic wage suppression is being… (lemmy.ml)

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Full title: Companies are now using your credit history, past-due accounts, browsing data, and social media accounts to figure out the absolute lowest salary you'll accept. Algorithmic wage suppression is being weaponized against workers to destroy wages.

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think there will always be people stuck with their existing confirmation biases, but if the advice merely helps less people it's still better than nothing at all... some people are just beyond saving.