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Exactly. Uber and Lyft are a 19th century labor situation which masks itself by using 21st century technology

• bergstromm466 6y ago
  Exactly. As Professor Guy Standing says: "The Precariat is the first class in history to be losing acquired rights – cultural, civil, social, economic and political. This is documented in A Precariat Charter. It leads to the most crucial feature. Those in it are reduced to being supplicants. The Latin root of precariousness is “to obtain by prayer”. The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing." [1] [1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-class-rise-of-populism/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-clas...
• kmlx 6y ago
  by giving drivers the right to turn the app off at any time? when did that happen in the 19th century?
  • mike00632 6y ago
    A taxi could simply turn its light off.
  • mdorazio 6y ago
    Underpaid day laborers could walk off the job site any time they wanted to and go to another site the next day...