▲ 86 ▼ A 45,000-person labor strike at Samsung's memory chip plants could throw a wrench into the AI boom | Fortune (fortune.com) submitted 3 months ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 13 points 3 months ago Oh no, they might have to run a competitive business instead of relying on artificial scarcity, price-fixing, and wage suppression. How terrible! permalink fedilink source
[–] lproven@social.vivaldi.net 6 points 3 months ago (2 children) @chobeat Good? permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] chobeat@lemmy.ml [S] 10 points 3 months ago Good, even though the union strategy of getting a slice of the cake while enabling processes that will screw over workers everywhere else can be debated. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Feyter@programming.dev 1 point 3 months ago IDK... "average payouts of $460,000-$477,000 per worker this year" no way that the average worker will get half a million dollar a year. So I don't really understand what this strikes are aiming for. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] chobeat@lemmy.ml [S] 10 points 3 months ago Good, even though the union strategy of getting a slice of the cake while enabling processes that will screw over workers everywhere else can be debated. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Feyter@programming.dev 1 point 3 months ago IDK... "average payouts of $460,000-$477,000 per worker this year" no way that the average worker will get half a million dollar a year. So I don't really understand what this strikes are aiming for. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago Ugh... just replace them with robots! So easy I should be World CEO. /$ (obviously) permalink fedilink source
[–] chahk@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago "AI boom"? More like AI bubble go "boom!" permalink fedilink source
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