Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers

Earlier conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170850

Wow. That attitude is reprehensible, especially from people who claim to know the dehumanization of factory work, firsthand, as I have too. Celebrating it and gleefully aggrandizing it is... unimaginable.

I would not want to work in nightmare this is creating... this indeed looks like dehumanizing, we are not robots

That's horrible. Also, shame on ycombinator for deleting the LinkedIn post, that's spineless.

If they just had stated afterwards "oh crap, we really did not think this through, and were being absolute monsters by choosing to back this", that would have been much better.

If only they framed it as positive reinforcement rather than negative penalties, no one would have cared. Hmmm

The Onion?

Peak capitalism.