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What's really significant is that the tech industry is slowly creating new job markets via 'app-driven services'. Doordash, grubhub, amazon, and google's instan
by capkutay 12y ago
What's really significant is that the tech industry is slowly creating new job markets via 'app-driven services'. Doordash, grubhub, amazon, and google's instant delivery services are other examples that can contribute to this new trend.
The technology infrastructure for instant/convenient buying, selling, and delivery of goods and services has been built out. Now it can truly scale by staffing massive amounts of people to actually carry out the tasks surrounding it.
- tomp 12y agoWhat's also really significant is that the majority of these jobs are minimum-wage, minimum-training, completely-replaceable jobs. What these people are doing is essentially an interface between software and reality - they are human robots.
- zanny 12y agoJust a temporary hold over until we have proper automated delivery machinery. And we did just get that self driving car article.
- CaptainZapp 12y agoWell, here's some food for thought on all those new "job markets" created: http://www.fastcompany.com/3027355/pixel-and-dimed-on-not-getting-by-in-the-gig-economy http://www.fastcompany.com/3027355/pixel-and-dimed-on-not-ge...