As #Bangladesh’s factories turn to #surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure - https://restofworld.org/2025/bangladesh-garment-factories-automation-surveillance/ "Facing competition from Vietnam and Cambodia, factories are using automation and surveillance to ramp up production and cut labor costs."
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Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 22:06:42 JST Glyn Moody
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Rui Seabra (ruiseabra@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 22:06:41 JST Rui Seabra
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*Chuckle* nothing wrong in having robots (automation) doing stupid (and sometimes dangerous) repetitive labour, instead of children or other exploited neo-"slaves", but somehow I don't think that's what they have in mind, though...In conversation permalink -
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Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Mar-2025 22:12:37 JST Glyn Moody
@RuiSeabra no, indeed
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