Nursing and other healthcare jobs are becoming gig work ā like driving or delivering food for Uber ā making the jobs more miserable and low-paying, writes Cory Doctorow.
The platforms collude with lawmakers and regulators who are in the pockets of investors.
Itās part of a larger economic trend: āFrom fintech to price-fixing to gig-work, the entire industry runs on the very stupid proposition that āitās not a crime if we do it with an app.āā
Cory: āSometime in this century, our political class and our financial class arrived at a consensus that Douglas Rushkoff describes as āgo meta,ā in his 2022 bookĀ _Survival of the Richest_:
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āThe āgo metaā ethos insists that the most important, smartest and most valuable move is alwaysĀ _away_Ā from productive labor. Donāt drive a cab: go meta and own a medallion that you rent to a cab driver. Donāt own a medallion, go meta and start a gig-work ride-hailing company. Donāt start a gig-work ride-hailing company, go meta andĀ _invest_Ā in a gig-work ride-hailing company. Donāt invest in a gig-work ride-hailing company, go meta and buyĀ _options_Ā in a gig-work ride-hailing company ā and so on and so on, into ever more abstracted forms of gambling and rent-collection.ā
Iāve been saying this for years: It often seems that the only way to succeed is not to do work that produces value, like a nurse. Itās not even to own property, like a 19th Century robber-baron that owned factories and railroads that produced value. The only way to succeed is to move money around. Thatās a bad way to run a society, and it results in riots and blood in the streets when the workers get desperate enough.
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