Cory Doctorow’s Vision for a Just Tech Revolution
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La critique du capitalisme actuel passe à travers de nouveaux protagonistes qui ne correspondent plus à l’image du prolétaire et son parti qui représente toute sa classe. L’écrivain Cory Doctorow nous propose son idée d’action techno-critique et les populistes entourant Sahra Wagenknecht apportent leur grain de réformisme peit bourgeois en incluant les idées syndicalistes. L’innovation politique redémarre à partir de zéro avec les enquêtes de Dickens et Goethe.
In effect, your boss hands you your paycheck at the end of the month, and he says, well, I’ve docked your pay, but I’m not going to tell you why I docked your pay because you’re not allowed to know those rules. If I told you the rules, you’d figure out how to cheat. This contemporary form of Taylorism exceeds the schemes even Robert Blincoe could have imagined. Blincoe was the ten-year-old who was indentured to work in a Manchester factory and wrote a bestselling memoir about it when he finally escaped ten years later, and it became the basis for Oliver Twist, which is basically Luddite fanfic. His boss could not have dreamt up the app boss system.
Doctorow découvte le sort du clickworker dans le récit qui a inspiré Charles Dickens.
A MEMOIR OF ROBERT BLINCOE, An Orphan Boy ; SENT FROM THE WORKHOUSE OF ST. PANCRAS, LONDON, AT SEVEN YEARS OF AGE, TO ENDURE THE Horrors of a Cotton-Mill,
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