Economists love the charts that represent the behaviors of the markets, which are curves. I was struck by the analogy of author Cory Doctorow in the article “The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers” on the Pluralistic website. He researches the curves of the labor markets from the point of view of the workers and has a theory: "Shitty technology adoption curve". According to this theory, you can predict the future impact of technology on your work by seeing how it spreads against people in situations of exclusion.

In recent years, the biggest tech industries have made massive layoffs (Amazon, Google, Meta...), while the salaries of bosses and investments of companies have increased. Therefore, the dismissal has not focused on the needs, but on the powers provided by technology. As this power over employees grows, the article says that Amazon is making great efforts to get programmers to use Artificial Intelligence to reduce their reliance on them. The sense of the programmers’ work is also changing: they no longer direct their intelligence to solve complex technical problems, their work is limited to reviewing the code generated automatically by a chatbot. And of course, it’s easier to replace code reviewers than programmers. We put not only the bodies at the service of the machine, as in the industrial revolution, but also the mind in this path that capitalism has taken in the exploitation of human capacities.

The reality of Amazon that the article shows will come to us. We're aware of that. Our class benefit has served to encourage segregation among workers, but we should turn this around so that we don’t fall into the same game. The only way to overcome the curve of access to cocoa technology is solidarity among workers.