> The world’s most powerful VC investors are funding an economy where technology allows a ‘ruling class’ to command an ‘underclass’ of servants with the swipe o

> The world’s most powerful VC investors are funding an economy where technology allows a ‘ruling class’ to command an ‘underclass’ of servants with the swipe of an app. The author is British, interestingly one of the few society that's actively protecting it's monarchy. You can't be more layered than that: you'll never ever be like these people, and the British people see nothing wrong with it nor these people having servants. They actually prefer it! But the little guy having someone deliver him lunch, that's "problematic". > 85% of Uber drivers are from Black, Asian or other underrepresented backgrounds (similar statistics can be found for Lyft drivers in the US). In 2018, almost 60% of gig workers in the UK were 18 to 34. We talk about people working in dark stores and dark kitchens, out of sight, out of mind — exactly like the servants who waited on Western aristocracy (and colonialists) in the past. Is this by design? Why else allow so much unskilled migrants?