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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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[–] DemandtheOxfordComma@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Getting in the door is hard enough without dealing with getting lowballed.

I just want a job. I had many years of stability. Now I want a win win where I get to do a good job and get compensated at the same level.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Time to build a co-op. This exploitation has become so systematized, that it is essentially a runaway genocide.

We need to cut off the parasites by doing something radical!

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

There are moneyless co-op communities like Bruderhof, which are interesting. The tricky part with those is what happens if you want to exit.

[–] professor_prime@lemmychan.org 1 points 1 week ago

You can get a job.