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OutOfExile_IDR § Écriture™️

The war in Washington over federally approved wage exploitation of the disabled is heating up. Proponents on both sides are taking their positions on the battlefield. Have you contacted Department of Labor Secretary Su or your congressman yet? It's time for you to get in position, get out and fight to change this injustice against the disabled community. What are you waiting for?

“The Regulatory Equivalent of Abolition” for Federally Sanctioned Exploitation of Disabled Workers: “Massive Legal and Political Battle” Looms in DC: outofexileidr.vivaldi.net/2024

Update! New Information – Article by Politico: OCTOBER SURPRISE?: The Department of Labor is coming up on a year since acting Secretary Julie Su initiated a review of the 14(c) certificate program, which allows qualified employers to pay disabled workers a fraction of the standard minimum wage.
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#DisabilityEconomicJustice #LaborDay #disability #wages #Election2024 #SocialJustice
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OutOfExile_IDR™ Invisible Disability Rights · “The Regulatory Equivalent of Abolition” for Federally Sanctioned Exploitation of Disabled Workers: “Massive Legal and Political Battle” Looms in DC:A US law that has been exploiting workers with disabilities for nearly 100 years, is about to trigger a battle in Washington.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

#LaborDay #WorkersRights #4DayWorkWeek #UniversalHealthcare #AI #Automation: "Beyond that, we should be thinking about proactive moves too—the time has never been better to advocate for a 4-day workweek, for instance. We’re just taking the AI companies, who say they’re in the process of ushering in a sublime productivity revolution, at their word! What better way to ensure all workers, not just CEOs, share the benefits of this presumably enhanced efficiency? While we’re at it, the same case might be made to agitate for universal healthcare again, too. The case should be obvious: In a world of hyperabundance, everyone gets access to free healthcare. It should be the very first thing. Anything else is immoral. Otherwise you get Elysium.

This is simply to say, for the last two years, investors, policymakers, and corporate enterprises have taken the tech companies at their word when they’ve pitched AI as a revolutionary and transformative technology—they should be methodically pushed to support commensurate revolutionary and transformative social policies, then, no? Unless, of course, they want to admit that they are full of shit.

Now, look; this is of course a haphazard and deeply incomplete list of ideas, but again; what better time to get the ball rolling? There are more people, users, and workers thinking about technology and how it’s shaping their lives—and willing to push back openly when that shape is turning out worse—than anytime perhaps this century so far. Generative AI is in this sense a burden and a beacon; a vast and dull force embraced by management to automate and oppress creative work, that may yet spark a broader reimagining of how we coexist with technology in general. And how we want to make it work for us, and not the other way around."

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Blood in the Machine · This Labor Day, let's consider what we want technology to do for *us* By Brian Merchant
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