You know how it is, it's a Saturday so you go out into the garden for a quick interface with nature before the next 10 hr Fortnite / Netflix combo binge to find your dog has left numerous piles of digested food all over the place. What do you do? Get online to AirTasker to post a job requesting someone come over to pick up the shit. Yes, seriously, that's what they do these days when help is just a click away. Need a pack of ciggies but are "too unwell" to go get them for yourself? Airtasker! Need a couple of vibrators in a hurry? Yep, someone on there will help you. For a price. Just when we thought with Facebook that humanity had hit rock bottom. How low can we go?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 24 2019, @07:47PM
In the really old days, you'd have a slave do it. Most of the ancient civilizations' economies were built on slavery.
Nowadays we're above all that, of course. Our economies are just built on getting as close to slaves as we can, with barely paid workers in sweatshops in Asia, or illegal immigrants paid under the table in the west.
I wonder if the yellow vests folks in France are shouting "Je suis Spartacus!"