Algorithmic pay practices - exploitation of workers!

Just seen that algorithmic pay practices are being implemented in multiple sectors in the US. Algorithms analyse worker's data and determine how desperate a person is for a shift and offer lower pay accordingly. E.g. nurses are being paid different amounts for the same work within the same facility. Uber already uses 'dynamic pay' in the UK.

This is just another way technological development is used to exploit the little guy and further increase inequality. We were told to work hard, but that doesn't get you anywhere anymore. In fact, the more hours one tries to work in this environment, the less reward they get. But if you don't work - due to ill health or because you just can't find a job - you get called a scrounger and are under a constant threat of your benefits being taken away. While the top 1% who own the algorithms get richer and richer.

We need regulations to stop these exploitative practices in the UK, but that seems like a pipe dream with our current political class. Labour and the Conservatives are funded by big corporations, Farage took 5 million quid from a billionaire, Restore is led by a multimillionaire... They couldn't care less about the people who keep this country going. Elon Musk has more wealth than half the global population and he uses it to fund political parties. Parties that then tell us that the pensioners, the unemployed, the disabled, the immigrants etc. are the problem.

I think we need to turn back to community organising, trade unions etc. Voting every few years and leaving the rest to the elected politicians has proved to only serve the interests of a tiny elite. Maybe we should start voting for independents with morals, instead of along party lines. AI is reshaping our world and, in the wrong hands, it's incredibly dangerous.

What do you think?

Link to a short article on the topic: youtube.com/post/UgkxLfVjNG9yacJjwr5bDLw5ZyQtAGe9mErU?si=36THrY5Abh5M1C04