*Wage theft, security issues and health problems on the rise after AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile outsource retail stores.*

There should be strict limits on outsourcing jobs to a subcontractor in the absence of real competition.

*Buttigieg Pretends He's Powerless To Reduce Derailment Risks.*

The article explains that there are some wrinkles, but there are ways around them for some cases.

Here's a cheery list of possible commercial applications for machine learning systems (referred to in the article as "AI"). How many injustices, real or probable, can you spot

Here's a hint: John Deere tractors, famous for being designed to make their "owners" helpless to fix them independently, collect data about parts of the field, and can use them to improve efficiency of production. John Deere keeps that data, so this becomes yet another way of subjugating users (farmers, in the case).

Professor Sussman, who works on artificial intelligence at MIT, reminds us that machine learning systems are no smarter than Dissociated Press. He reserves the term "artificial intelligence" for systems that understand what they are talking about and know what the facts are.

People who are frantic will propose widepread mistreatment to deal with occasional injustices. Here is an example: to protect gig ride drivers from robberies (which occasionally escalate into killings) by requiring every passenger to prove per identity with an official document.

A person whose SO has been killed by criminals can easily demand a massive system of injustice to reduce such crimes. Even, as in this example, to demand it as an afterthought added to other measures that ought to be sufficient by themselves.

A person in that situation can lose sight of the enormity of the demand perse is making on millions of others.

One of the main injustices of gig ride dis-services as they are today — one of the reasons that they merit the term "dis-services" — is tracking passengers: they require passengers to identify themselves by using cell phones and payment cards. Apparently robbers have a way to avoid being tracked; what can it be? Perhaps they steal phones and payment cards to use for this. That is not an option for a law-abiding person; our only way to protect ourselvss from tracking dis-services is to reject them entirely.

But even though these dis-services are unjust already, changes in practices that make the tracking more strict and pervasive are important to fight against. Please join in.

The Guardian's economics editor can see that machine learning systems can eliminate millions of fairly good jobs, forcing millions to join other millions in dead-end poverty.

But he won't look for solutions outside the narrow capitalist system. Trying to train people for better jobs won't do any good if the better jobs are disappearing too.

For the next few decades, we might make a lot more good jobs: construction work to replace our carbon-dependent systems, and medical jobs to care for increasing numbers of old and infirm. Those jobs need to be funded by the public — which implies adding more socialism to our society.

In the long term, to quote a man who spoke at a meeting in Cambridge decades ago, "If the robots make it, we gotta take it!" We must tax the rich and give every person a decent life.