Have you ever thought about how you can suddenly afford having an army of servants driving you around, getting your food, and running your errands? The prime innovation in the gig economy is to bring back the oldest trick in the book: exploitation.
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This is the kind of exploitation we're talking about.https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1217950264168050688 …
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To all the libertarian hacks coming back with "but gig workers CHOOSE to take these jobs; ergo, they're fine", please listen to
@WideAsleepNima and@AdamJohnsonNYC refute that nonsense on@citationspod episode 95.https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-95-the-hollow-vanity-of-libertarian-choice-rhetoric …Prikaži ovu nit
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They'll continue to exist for as long as they get funded
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They will exist until workers unionize, bargain collectively, and force basic human dignity.
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That truly is what we have these days. Beauuuuuutifully-designed apps enabling a new era of indentured servitude.
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Exploitation-on-demand requires all the makeup and disintermediation they can apply and summon. If people actually had to deal with the reality of what it takes for them to have an army of servants at their fingertips, they'd recoil.
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The challenge is that many workers, esp. drivers, will soon be displaced by robots/automated systems. Many “non-gig” biz models (like fashion MNCs) operate factories in 3rd World countries where $15/hr + benefits would be a dream.
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This techno utopia bullshit is a neoliberal fantasy. Self-driving cars are DECADES into the future, at best. How about we deal with the destitution of today, and then when fantasyland arrives, we consider how to share the spoils then?
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Since 1972, boomers figured out how to exploit the system
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