Surveillance Wages

/sərˈveɪləns ˈweɪdʒɪz/

plural noun.


Wages personalized through data about individual workers, their behavior and their bargaining position.

Instead of asking what the work should pay, the system can ask how little this particular person is likely to accept. Surveillance does not merely observe labor. It becomes part of the machinery used to price it.

See also Algorithmic Wage Discrimination, Privacy, Bargaining Power

the algorithm is looking for your floor.

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