https://deceit.blog/tag/labor Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "labor". en Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:49 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/artists-are-liars-and-thieves https://deceit.blog/essay/artists-are-liars-and-thieves Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. Somewhere on Threads right now, an artist is quote posting an AI image with three words: this is theft. Under it, for emphasis: good artists borrow, great artists steal. Nobody edits the second line out. Nobody catches the problem. The problem is not small, and it is not the only one in the caption.… https://deceit.blog/essay/letter-to-the-left-on-ai https://deceit.blog/essay/letter-to-the-left-on-ai Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMT Explain. To the left, If our politics of artificial intelligence ends with refusal, the decisions do not stop. Employers still decide how the systems enter workplaces. Technology companies still decide what gets built and whose data pays for it. Police and immigration agencies still decide how automated anal… https://deceit.blog/essay/working-class-damage https://deceit.blog/essay/working-class-damage Wed, 27 May 2026 20:00:14 GMT Explain. The first three years looked better than the ending. Unemployment fell to 3.5 percent by February 2020. Real median household income rose, poverty fell, and workers at the lower end of the labor market finally gained some bargaining power. Then the pandemic arrived, and about twenty two million payr…