Livestream of Connected Futures conference — current panel is about the gig economy and algorithms http://www.northeastern.edu/videostream/
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Question -- asks if how much of this exploitation is really just people and culture? Like what if Travis Kalanick wasn't Travis Kalanick?
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Answer is that it's definitely systemic and ideological -- Lyft is riding off the coattails by being less evil doppelgänger.
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"I used to think working conditions in the taxi industry were bad... but the level of precarity that Uber & Lyft drivers experience..."
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"... I can only compare it to my experience with the service industry in India."
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Some are only making enough money to meet the subprime lease for the vehicle from Uber/Lyft.
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That was an incredible set of presentations. Wow.
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Wow. Imagine if this was somehow applied to long-haul trucking.
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When I was in SF a year ago I asked everyone I met to name one 'sharing economy' platform that wasn't VC driven. Couldn't find even one.
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(Of any scale, not just tiny local stuff)
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Problem is, it's hard to make a pithy app name from the word 'Medallion'
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