Reverse centaurism is the 21st Century's answer to #Taylorism, the pseudoscience that saw white-coated "experts" subject workers to humiliating choreography down to the smallest movement of your fingertip:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

While reverse centaurism was born in warehouses and other company-owned facilities, gig work let it make the leap into workers' homes and cars.

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The lockdowns saw an explosion in #bossware, technology that monitors your every keystroke, every click, every URL, every file, even the video and audio from the cameras and mics on your devices, whether or not you pay for those devices.

This is the second coming of #Taylorism, the fine-grained, high-handed "scientific" micromanagement of factory workers, transposed to the home, and integrated with sensors that track you down to your eyeballs:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

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Tech Won't Save Us: How Algorithms Are Transforming Work w/ Callum Cant https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/8072334-how-algorithms-are-transforming-work-w-callum-cant.mp3?blob_id=36301417

#Taylorism #TechnoTaylorism #UniversalBasicServices