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Meanwhile in the gig economy, workers are finding their pay being docked for no apparent reason & are excluded from bookings/work by the ap... and there is little recourse from an automated system that few understand how it works.
I've said it before, the gig economy's innovation is not technological it is a system to remove workers' rights, and exploit them, to enhance profits... this is just Victorian working practice for the new millennium!
@ChrisMayLA6 Meanwhile politicos can’t understand why economies are stagnant and nobody wants to have children any more! Maybe #AI can help them?!
@ChrisMayLA6 Neo-feudalism.
The post-WW2 blip in history that loosened the grip of plutocrats and oligarchs is ending. Will it take yet another war to save the people and planet?
Well, we've no shortage of wars, so it may need something else?
@ChrisMayLA6 So, imagine a gig economy service that was set up as a workers' collective or co-op, deliberately engineered to provide value to clients and empowerment to workers. Would it work? Could it entice gig economy workers to jump ship? How would it start up without the piles of VC cash necessary to manufacture a need? IDK. I do gardening.
I think it would be an interesting idea, perhaps under the umbrella of a wider workers cooperative (something like Spain's Mondragon) perhaps?
Apparently, Ryanair, one of Europes largest airlines is gig-only. Theeir pilots have to set up as self-employed and are contractors not employees - so no holidays, no sick pay, no employee style benefits whatever!
I *didn't* know that, but on reflection am hardly surprised