Cory Doctorow

And then you work your way up to kids and then high school kids, blue-collar workers and pink-collar workers and then white-collar workers.

And it starts with, like, the only people who eat dinner under a CCTV are in Supermax.

And 20 years later, it's like, no, you were just dumb enough to buy a home camera from, like, Apple or Google or God help us all, Facebook.

Right.

So that is the shitty technology adoption curve.

And if you want to know what the future of workers is, you look at the least privileged workers at the bottom, and then you see that technology working its way up.

You look at drivers for Amazon.

They have all these sensors pointed at their faces, sensors studded around the van.

They're not given a long enough break even to deal with things like period hygiene issues.

And so women who drive for Amazon who go into the back of the van to deal with their periods discover that that's all on camera because that's all being recorded.

All of this stuff is subject to both manual and automated analytics.

And at one point, Amazon was docking drivers for driving with their mouth open because that might lead to distraction while driving.

And so, as you say, it kind of denudes you of all dignity.

It really is very grim.

And, you know, Tim and I used to ride the Toronto Transit Commission buses to school in the morning when we were going to elementary school.

And we loved the drivers who would sing and tell jokes and remember you.

This is the thing that makes...

working in the world, being in the world, great.

It's having a human relationship with other humans, not having standardized labor units that have been automated and standardized to the point where they can be swapped out.

You know, if you give a cashier a cash register instead of making them add up things on the paper, you could give them the surplus to talk with the customers and have a human relationship with them.