Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) : "… what Uber calls 'flexibility' is really a way for the company to offload its operational risks onto its drivers."
That sounds suspiciously like the age-old maxim businesses have always used: privatizing profits and socializing losses .
https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/11/your-risk/#my-reward
gregg r
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