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The Uber Game: Can you make it in the gig economy?

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Re: The Uber Game: Can you make it in the gig economy?

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It really annoyed me that the game forced me to make errors. I don't oversleep and I have a generous dataplan that doesn't force me to buy "unlimited." I also didn't get a choice to stay in Sac. The feeling of "this is hard" was lost and was replaced by "this is not a useful demonstration."

Whether intentionally or unintentionally you're demonstrating the concept of privilege that some people are making efforts to point out. You want to play the game that you want because you believe yourself to be a rational, intelligent, logical person. You believe you can win the game. You don't oversleep, you have a generous data plan. You can choose. And you're complaining that the game isn't useful because it does…

"What do you choose to do about it?"

Per the demonstration, it doesn't matter. It's still railroading the player in a very unrealistic way that has less to do with "privilege" (doesn't take much of it to choose to work in Sacramento) and more to do with "I'm going to shove the intended storyline down the player's throat within 30 seconds".

Re: The Uber Game: Can you make it in the gig economy?

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Well, wasn't the whole idea of Uber and the "gig economy" to not have professional drivers, but just people doing it in their spare time _if they already have the means to_?

That's the image they like to cultivate, but with their strict requirements of model and condition of vehicle, it has to be done as a business. Oh, and the insurance.

Re: The Uber Game: Can you make it in the gig economy?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally you're demonstrating the concept of privilege that some people are making efforts to point out. You want to play the game that you want because you believe yourself to be a rational, intelligent, logical person. You believe you can win the game. You don't oversleep, you have a generous data plan. You can choose. And you're complaining that the game isn't useful because it does…

I'm sympathetic to arguments from those pointing out my personal privilege and how it doesn't apply to them. But I take issue with the infantilization of lower middle-class people. Not oversleeping or calculating how much data you're using is not a privilege issue, these things are knowable and predictable. It's offensive to all the working class people who do manage their time and finances to keep their head above w…

That is really an excellent point... I stopped by an automobile repair shop and they were discussing how to best schedule my repairs given the constraints. Yet they are all blue collar workers, but are in fact very responsible.
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