
Juliet Schor wants a four-day work week
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The Platform Hierarchy and the Aria in the Book
In the early days, you had this incredible influx of venture capital, which was enabling companies like uber to pay these higher rates for the drivers. And then they just realize, well, they're paying far above market for skills that are pretty general in the population. So we had people who were trying to do it full time, could have a good hourly wage, but they were all making below the poverty line. But on the and, you know, uber is just a predatory, predatory platform that has been just disastrous for workers.
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