Funny how the AI boom is supposedly about replacing workers, yet the entire industry still depends on people keeping the chip factories running. Executives get record profits, shareholders get soaring valuations, and the people making it possible have to strike for a fair share. Perhaps the real disruption is workers discovering their leverage.
People have always had to strike for a fair share. Firms do not pay what is “fair” according to the profits they workers earn them. They pay what’s “fair” in the labour market they get people from. Where “fair” is as low as they can get away with.
鬼島 “ghost island” is the phrase taiwanese use to talk about the general feeling of malaise that comes with taiwan’s precarious political position, the difficulty of finding good work, new opportunities or hope for the future.
I can imagine that makes organizing much harder.
