FM · Film · 2008 · 90 min
Sleep Dealer
Alex Rivera
The machines
Node-linked remote labour — workers pilot construction robots across a sealed border.
What people do all day
Mexican workers plug in and spend shifts operating machinery in American cities they will never enter. The labour crosses the border; the body does not. Nodes burn out the people who use them.
Pattern
Capital captures it — Nothing is abolished. The gains are simply owned by someone.
Note
Obscure and worth the effort. Made the gig-economy argument years before the phrase existed.
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