Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The gig workers who pack, drive, deliver and support tech products aren't even ...
The gig workers who pack, drive, deliver and support tech products aren't even employees - they're misclassified as contractors. They don't get free massages - they get AI bosses that monitor their eyeballs and dock their paychecks for peeing:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-noGig workers desperately need unions, but they also derive extraordinary benefits from self-help measures.
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