[benjaminjosephw]

> Outsource tedious, repetitive and boring work to our workforce in just a couple of clicks.

This is exactly how you create an environment that is just asking for regulation and rightly so if you show such disregard for other people.

Explicitly treating human laborers in more-or-less the same way you treat a machine is unethical design as well as being an ugly and harmful philosophy. You are literally building a system that enables dehumanizing labor. Is this the kind of future you're happy being a part of building?

[oneshoe]

You really made me consider the ethics associated to this type of project.

I'm curious about your thoughts about an internal questions I had in my head.

What is different from this than say hired labor for picking up produce or something to that extent?

[benjaminjosephw]

There's a difference between fulfilling work and drudgery in every domain.

I've worked a few very dehumanizing programming jobs where I didn't have any agency and just worked to someone else's instructions without any room for input. Some people enjoy programming against a clear specification but I don't think anyone really wants to be a code monkey[0].

I think managers and job creators (like those building products in this space) need to think carefully about the humans they create jobs for. Just because someone is willing to do a soul destroying job for some amount of money doesn't mean that the job's designer is freed from the duty to consider the impacts of the job itself. Jobs are, after all, not just a contract between inanimate objects but context of work for human beings - efficiency and economics can't be the only considerations.

Participation in building structures like these carries with it an ethical responsibility which can't be ignored - especially where the harms are so blatantly dehumanizing.

[0] - https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=code%20monke...

[nexuist]

> You are literally building a system that enables dehumanizing labor

As opposed to the rest of us building systems that will put thousands out of jobs en masse?

Sure, there should be regulation regarding minimum pay and such. But an idea like this is not unethical on its own. It's unethical when combined with a society that is prepped to view automation as a danger instead of a savior, because the moonshot idea that we could just work less in the information age seems to be obliterated at this point.