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Those workers are consciously choosing to go work for those companies, taking all differences in consideration. Why do they need to be "protected", and from wha
by innguest 12y ago
Those workers are consciously choosing to go work for those companies, taking all differences in consideration. Why do they need to be "protected", and from what? I think you're assuming that the way things are is necessarily better for everyone.
- ergl 12y agoI don't have any citations, but I would venture most people working on these platforms do it because they need extra money. Nobody quits his day job to drive people around in Uber or to spend 8 hours a day in Amazon turk. Most of these startups try to create a monopoly at the level of the platform, but force workers to compete against each other, undermining solidarity between them that facilitates an unfair exchange