Comment by bdangubic

14 days ago

> this is the least bad one

not that I wish this on anyone but you would change your mind very quickly if you had to do this job for just one hour. it can fuck you up for life

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golem14  14 days ago

I don't think anyone is disputing that this job is terrible, it clearly is. The counter argument is that many other jobs are also terrible, and it's not clear whether you can really stack rank them and this one is at the bottom of the pole.

  • throwaway290  14 days ago

    The counter counter argument is that we all talking here know what manual job or not getting paid feels like. But we don't know what it does to you if you have a job where you must watch humans hurt/torture/rape other humans day in day out.

    we know what work feels like. Maybe it's better maybe it's worse. But we don't know personally and have no intuition about THIS kind of stuff.

    • greygoo222  14 days ago

      I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. Am I just too old? What do you mean, people on this forum have no intuition about what watching gore videos online is like? About watching hours of ordinary porn (as the article also mentioned)?

      That's more likely to be within the experience of a HackerNews user than serious manual labor.

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alephnerd  14 days ago

So can working in the unorganized sector in the heart of the Red Corridor. Like this is literally one of the least developed parts of one of the least developed states in India.

A tribal woman like Murmu who is clearly living in the Red Corridor districts (based on surname and geographic location) doesn't have any better choice.

Yes content moderation introduces you to horrid content, but the alternatives give the very real risk of physical and sexual violence.

greygoo222  14 days ago

This is utterly ridiculous. The majority of teens I knew watched a few hours of LiveLeak at some point and turned out fine.

  • fragmede  14 days ago

    a few hours! Watching it for 40+ hours a week for months on end is going to fuck you up more than a casual perusal of a shock website.

  • throwaway290  14 days ago

    Yeah and you for sure know what went through all of their heads.

    If a kid enjoys it it's a very big red flag. If a kid is horrified by it (as I was) even if pretending to be cool in front of peers, then there you have your answer as to what it must feel to do it every day 9 to 7.