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Did folks like you in this thread thinking along this path, actually read the article? The algorithms don’t appear to be taking on the output (such as star ratings) alone into consideration. This is the core of your argument.

The algorithms are allegedly manipulating workers into working longer than they would otherwise need to, by withholding opportunities so that it takes longer for their daily goal to hit. That’s horrible if true!

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I read it and the article admits at the end there’s no proof this is actually happening. The companies say it’s not. There’s only an academic who is theorizing about it and an anecdote from a worker that claims it feels like they are cut off from jobs when they are approaching a bonus. And the academic wants to influence the creation of a law for their made up problem.

Fair point, but I was responding to the claim in the parent comment (“paying two SWE II's different amounts is unfair.”)

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