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Especially when everyone else got fired at the same time and finds themselves in a game of musical chairs for the few remaining jobs. You don't care if it means oppressive surveillance, at least you can pay your mortage and send your kids to school.

This. I'm working as an ESL teacher and upper management made me install cameras in every classroom, then pipe that feed to their home and head office.

Couldn't afford to leave, so I had to do it. I've left now though when I finally lined up something better.

Please tell me you teach 1984, for the sake of irony only.

Actually yes, for my senior high school students and I specificily mentioned the cameras in the class rooms lol

Actually many many thousands of good engineers are being forced to accept monitoring software on sites like UpWork.

And no, they don't have a good choice, because the pay and opportunities in many countries just doesn't compete well with those sites.