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> There's no discrimination here because Uber and Doordash aren't treating minorities different from what they treat anyone else. You’ve misunderstood the use
by vundercind 2y ago
> There's no discrimination here because Uber and Doordash aren't treating minorities different from what they treat anyone else.
You’ve misunderstood the use of “discrimination” in the paper. It’s as in “price discrimination” (a parallel the introduction draws explicitly, if the play on words didn’t come through in the title).
- stretchandahalf 2y agoThe second sentence of the article reads "For many low-income and subordinated racial minority workforces in the United States, however, on-the-job data collection and algorithmic decisionmaking systems are having a more profound yet overlooked impact" I'm sorry, but it's clearly pushing an agenda.
- vundercind 2y agoIf the described effects do exist, I think it would be a much more surprising finding if they didn’t disproportionately affect cohorts that tend to have weaker labor-rate bargaining positions than others. Do you see problems with the core argument of the paper?
- singleshot_ 2y ago> As is to be expected from a lawyer talking about algorithms and economics. What’s wrong with lawyers studying these things?