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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
- Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
- Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
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- Higher wages for underpaid workers.
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- Better and fewer working hours.
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AI didn't take your job, you priced yourself out of the market.
I've been on the technical side of delivering translation for better than 35 years. In that time I've had to adapt and learn new technologies as fast as they came out. What started as a challenging, if poorly paid, position has morphed into being a TV producer, director, camera operator, audio, lighting and video tech, translation specialist, computer programmer, network admin, and client handler.
In that same 35 years interpreters and translators haven't changed one iota: still handsomely paid, catered to, self-righteous and entitled; still prima donnas who reek of imagined superiority.
Now I read about AI "taking" work from them? Guess what - AI won't fall asleep while on the job. AI won't shut down because it can't see what kind of mic a speaker is using or there's no water in the booth. AI won't whinge and whine because lunch isn't provided. AI won't bitch because their hotel room is too hot/cold/noisy/near the pool/near the elevator/on too high a floor/on too low a floor, or show up to work uselessly hung over.
Suck it up, buttercup, we've all had a tough go since Reagan and Thatcher decided corporations and profit outweighed the needs of people. You've been pampered forever, now, you have to work. Tough it out and learn to deal with it or fuck off.
Genuinely, what the hell are you doing in this community? I've never read a more snide and condescending derision of an entire field of labor based on an entirely corporatist, anti-worker, grindset worldview on this forum to date. Following this line of thought across our society leads us to an absolute fucking dystopia, and somehow you've not only internalized it and self aggrandize about how you pulled yourself up to the next level of success by your bootstraps, you've went and tried to argue that asinine point in a community focused on strengthening the rights, powers, and well being of the common worker.
Why are you here?
They were probably browsing /c/all but doesn't excuse being an awful human.
To some extent I get what you're saying, people do need to evolve and things change but also while we have humans with jobs I also feel like they should be comfortable. Some of the things that you're listing as failings feel perfectly reasonable to me. Like having water or having a comfortable place to sleep if you need to be on location for a job. We're all going to have to evolve and see what work looks like as things change but that's not a reason in my opinion to price ourselves into unsustainable conditions or pay. Once that's the case then we clearly need some other way to make things work or unionize to protect each other.