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Some people see servants as faceless, replaceable cogs. Abuse of servants happens every day all over the world.

• deogeo 8y ago
  And the gig economy marketplaces expands that 'some' to 'all', since it's near-impossible to find out what's happening with any one gig worker once your brief interaction with them is over. Thanks to all that smart tech that automatically matches buyers to sellers, they probably don't even have a manager to notice they got sick. The more you reduce human contact and any chance of forming a relationship, the more cog-like workers will be treated. And reducing human contact in the name of efficiency is exactly what all those gig economy services do. Just because some servants are already abused, doesn't mean gig economy won't make it worse.