Posted by Brajeshwar 9/13/2025
Any technology that creates "sysiphian" tasks, is not worth anyones time. That includes LLMs, and "Big Data". The "herculean effort" that never ends is the proof in the pudding. The tech doesnt work.
Its like using machine learning for self driving instead of having an actual working algorythm. Your bust.
Underpaid just isn't a useful term. If it's their best option for a job in the whole world then their employer is the best it could possibly be. Describing that situation as "underpaid" is just manipulative.
It doesn't need to be perfect for it to be good enough. People change jobs all the time. Yes, it involves some time, effort, and tradeoffs. But the worse your current job is, the higher the benefits of switching are.
So there’s just no reason at all to hand wave any transactions they are involved in as the result of simple supply and demand.
So I honestly don't know what you're talking about.
Many companies are competing for people with these skills, including for the exact same type of work, and there's zero evidence of any kind of collusion going on.
You're going to have to be specific about what rigging you think is happening. This isn't anything like when Apple, Google, Adobe, etc. were colluding not to poach each other's engineers in 2005-2009 [1].
Job markets like aren't perfect-perfect, but they're mostly decently efficient and rational, as far as supply and demand and pricing goes, with just everyday normal friction.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
The evidence based approach is to look at the credibility and history of the accused party.
Past credibility/history is irrelevant. Just because someone went to jail 20 years ago for a theft in a town, we don't throw them back in jail every time there's a new theft, and then demand they prove they are innocent. But that's what you seem to be asking for. However, that is wrong and unjust.
The article contains numerous first person accounts with quotes from named people talking about working conditions they experienced, complaining that they are overworked and underpaid.
The post I am responding to is by someone who has no direct experience whatsoever citing a broad ideological concept as evidence that it isn’t happening because, in general, they believe the situation being described is impossible.
How this industry managed to not grasp that meaning exists entirely separate from words is altogether bizarre.