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Deception, exploited workers, and free cash: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users | MIT Technology Review

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The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.

Deception, exploited workers, and free cash: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content On a sunny morning last December, Iyus Ruswandi, a 35-year-old furniture maker in the village of Gunungguruh, Indonesia, was woken up early by his mother. A technology company was holding some kind of “social assistance giveaway” at the local Islamic elementary school, she said, and she urged him to go. Ruswandi joined a long line of residents, mostly women, some of whom had been waiting since 6 a.m. In the pandemic-battered economy, any kind of assis

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