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Labour getting ever-granular in the age of micro-loans and RentAHuman. > "Dashers have a new way to earn on their own terms" The classic meaning inversion of
by cheesecompiler 6mo ago
Labour getting ever-granular in the age of micro-loans and RentAHuman.
> "Dashers have a new way to earn on their own terms"
The classic meaning inversion of precariousness and lack of benefits as a virtue.
- vovavili 6mo agoNeither of these two things are something that DoorDash as a company can realistically do anything about.
- jrjeksjd8d 6mo agoIf only there was some other kind of employment model where people had regular shifts and they were paid consistently and transparently. Unfortunately I also do my office work by logging into an app at 6AM every day and bidding on a white collar job for a mystery amount of time and money
- vovavili 6mo agoI am pretty sure that DoorDash employs quite a few of people for their tasks at hand.
- DonaldPShimoda 6mo agoNotably not the people who actually make the company money, though.
- matthewdgreen 6mo agoDoorDash lobbies heavily against laws that would regulate labor, or classify its workers as “employees” and thus require they be covered by the minimal protections our country offers.
- reddozen 6mo agoIf the politicians are bought out by evil DoorDash's lobbying, why don't the voters just vote the politicians out? Do you have any evidence of a politician voting against their constituents' interests for personal gain?
- brianwawok 6mo agoIgnoring the easy second line, the answer to the first line is: we have two political parties in the US. What if neither are doing what the voters want?
- jmye 6mo agoThen people should stop being dumbfucks and engage in local (which are frequently non-partisan) and state elections and primaries, and stop pretending that "the president didn't fix everything and make this a socialist utopia, so both parties suck" is a useful or vaguely intelligent criticism.
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- CPLX 6mo ago> Do you have any evidence of a politician voting against their constituents' interests for personal gain? You have to be kidding. In the current US political system, the hard part would be finding examples of a politician doing anything but.
- xienze 6mo agoTo be fair, it’s not really their fault that there are people who want to treat work that normally would be considered a way to pick up a few bucks during free time as a full time career. Sure, go ahead and make fast food delivery a highly regulated line of work that pays $30/hour with benefits. Just don’t be surprised when it no longer becomes economically viable for DoorDash to continue operating.
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- loa_in_ 6mo agoIn a certain Euroland country an analogous delivery company just awards the driver minimum hourly payment on certain agreed before hours if they're clearly working but circumstances had them earn less. Minimum wage requirements stifle nothing.
- cheesecompiler 6mo agoInability to do something != needing to take advantage of the situation.
- CSMastermind 6mo agoIt's also unlocking economic value that was impossible to realize in the old model. If you're sitting around your house with nothing to do for an hour you can now earn money in ways you couldn't before.
- spicyusername 6mo ago"value"
- ChromaticPanic 6mo ago"Earn money" most markets are so saturated with drivers, nobody is making above minimum wage.
- RugnirViking 6mo agoA laughable concept; absurd on its face. Just like the idea that uber is just suburban mums taking one or two trips on the way back from school. It will absolutely be a full time, below minimum wage job that desperate people do. The same as uber, delivery drivers, and the entire rest of the gig economy
- tt24 6mo agoNot how Uber works now. Uber drivers love the flexibility and the ability to choose their hours. That’s the main draw of tue platform.
- cheesecompiler 6mo agoFungibility means anything can be framed as economic value. Prisoner labour is also unlocking economic value, as is child labour. Also who are these non-theoretical people who in this economy can afford to sit around but are suddenly economically motivated by gig economy offerings?
- TheRoque 6mo agoTo me it's a typical symptom of a bad economy. If you go to any third world country you'll see such jobs easily. People just gathering scraps to make ends meet because getting money is hard. If it were really "their own terms" they wouldn't do that kind of job at all.