Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
To some extent I get what you’re saying, people do need to evolve and things change but also while we have humans with jobs I also feel like they should be comfortable. Some of the things that you’re listing as failings feel perfectly reasonable to me. Like having water or having a comfortable place to sleep if you need to be on location for a job. We’re all going to have to evolve and see what work looks like as things change but that’s not a reason in my opinion to price ourselves into unsustainable conditions or pay. Once that’s the case then we clearly need some other way to make things work or unionize to protect each other.
To some extent I get what you’re saying, people do need to evolve and things change but also while we have humans with jobs I also feel like they should be comfortable. Some of the things that you’re listing as failings feel perfectly reasonable to me. Like having water or having a comfortable place to sleep if you need to be on location for a job. We’re all going to have to evolve and see what work looks like as things change but that’s not a reason in my opinion to price ourselves into unsustainable conditions or pay. Once that’s the case then we clearly need some other way to make things work or unionize to protect each other.