Robots were supposed to take our jobs. Instead, they’re making them worse (vox.com)

>Gig workers can find themselves at the whims of an app’s black-box algorithm that lets workers flood the app to compete with each other at a frantic pace for pay so low that how lucrative any given trip or job is can depend on the tip, leaving workers reliant on the generosity of an anonymous stranger.

Can we not do sentences like this ever again, please?

It’s much easier to build a machine to give your factory workers an electric shock when they slack off, than to build a machine to do the actual work..

Although the threat (or panacea) was always that unskilled and low skilled workers would be replaced by robots, it's looking increasingly possible that first line and middle management will be replaced by robots (really expert systems). As more organizations become metrics driven this becomes closer to reality every day.