La confusione sull’introduzione del pensiero computazionale nelle scuole è grande. Non so se dipenda dalla storicamente scarsa dimestichezza della cultura italica con la parte logico-matematica del nostro cervello (e della storia del pensiero), da un magari in buona fede ma maldiretto tentativo di colmare il distacco con altri popoli, o dalla scarsa disponibilità di docenti abbastanza preparati e abbastanza coraggiosi da saper affrontare un cambio di paradigma che comunque non è più rimandabile.
Google Workers Launch an Unconventional Union
After staying mouth agape yesterday as an eccentric mob stormed the US Capitol, unionizing Google would make the perfect atonement (as far as Masse und Macht goes, at least).
Except that it doesn’t. And indeed, in an essay that goes by the ominous title Il tuo capo è un algoritmo (Your boss is an algorithm, in Italian), Antonio Aloisi and Valerio De Stefano do suggest some forms of “collective autonomy” whereby workers coordinate to fight their algorithmic master.
However, in the case of Google I wonder whether this initiative will have a real impact beyond the catchy headlines, given that Googlers, the well-paid and post-Fordism-ridden software engineers and managers who make 250,000$ on average and enshrine the most sought-after hard skills out there, are hardly ever disadvantaged workers.
They stand on the opposite side with respect to gig workers, they are the chosen ones, so much so that they can even afford to take position against their employer on ethics and values. Which is great, of course, as Google standing on ethics has been anything but true to their old tenet about don’t being evil.
Yet the real battles for workers’ rights will be fought elsewhere.
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