Firms have discovered that if they classified workers as contractors instead of employees they could pay less, so they’ve kept doing that, a lot, to the degree that it’s deforming our social structure. Rich malefactors like Harvey Weinstein have known for a long time that they can overload the justice system by throwing money at it, like an AI that’s discovered that the most efficient way to stay out of jail is simply to donate to Cy Vance, rather than avoid committing crimes.
Meanwhile, cops create bullshit crimes by poor people just to please the computers — leading to nearly a million unjustified charges in New York alone.
The FBI does pretty much the same thing, and has accidentally become the country’s central source of terror plots, according to Human Rights Watch.
We’re supposed to be incentivizing the creation and distribution of useful goods. Instead, we’ve incentivized the creation of giant mind-control machines for sale to the highest bidder because that was more efficient. Whoops!
> Firms have discovered that if they classified workers as contractors instead of employees they could pay less, so they’ve kept doing that, a lot, to the degree that it’s deforming our social structure. Rich malefactors like Harvey Weinstein have known for a long time that they can overload the justice system by throwing money at it, like an AI that’s discovered that the most efficient way to stay out of jail is simply to donate to Cy Vance, rather than avoid committing crimes.
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> Meanwhile, cops create bullshit crimes by poor people just to please the computers — leading to nearly a million unjustified charges in New York alone.
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> The FBI does pretty much the same thing, and has accidentally become the country’s central source of terror plots, according to Human Rights Watch.
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> We’re supposed to be incentivizing the creation and distribution of useful goods. Instead, we’ve incentivized the creation of giant mind-control machines for sale to the highest bidder because that was more efficient. Whoops!
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