— Cory Doctorowthe apps that hospitals use to hire contract nurses first buy their recent financial information from an unregulated data-broker, checking to see whether the nurse has a lot of credit-card debt, because if you owe a lot on your Visa, the app can offer you a lower hourly wage and you'll still take the shift
Replicated under Fair Use from Pluralistic: Become unoptimizable (20 Aug 2025) by Cory Doctorow.