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Low wage employers like McDonalds and Walmart are the
new sweatshop, but something different is happening in tech
McDonalds 440,000 employees, 68 million monthly users
Snapchat ~300 employees, 100 million monthly users
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Programmers are actually managers
Every day, you are
inspecting the performance
of your workers and giving
them instruction (in the form
of code) about how to do a
better job
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There are other companies where programs are
managers, while many of the workers are human
At
companies
like Uber
and Lyft,
algorithms
tell people
what to do