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Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday November 20 2019, @09:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the routing-around-damage dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurd

What would happen if low-wage workers came together to cut out the middleman and build their own platforms? This isn't just a thought experiment. Worker-owned apps are already providing real alternatives to dismal working conditions in the global gig economy.

Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa75a8/worker-owned-apps-are-trying-to-fix-the-gig-economys-exploitation

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 20 2019, @01:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 20 2019, @01:01PM (#922343)

    Already, capital is hard at work to keep this from happening. If you can't buy ownership outright, you can always sue. Sue for what? Well, how about patents? Putting that capital to work.

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