Amid the catastrophe, many Venezuelans turned to online platforms for work. By mid-2018, hundreds of thousands had discovered and joined the data-annotation industry, accounting for as much as 75 percent of the workforce for some outsourcing firms. Working on data-annotation platforms became a whole-family activity. Julian Posada, an assistant professor at Yale University who interviewed dozens of Venezuelan workers, found that parents and children often took turns to work on a shared computer; wives reverted to cooking and cleaning to allow their husbands to earn just a little more money by
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