Interesting - same concept as Amazon Mechanical Turk when you could crowdsource tasks
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#12Labour getting ever-granular in the age of micro-loans and RentAHuman. > "Dashers have a new way to earn on their own terms" The classic meaning inversion of precariousness and lack of benefits as a virtue.
Neither of these two things are something that DoorDash as a company can realistically do anything about.
If only there was some other kind of employment model where people had regular shifts and they were paid consistently and transparently. Unfortunately I also do my office work by logging into an app at 6AM every day and bidding on a white collar job for a mystery amount of time and money
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#13Definitely won't be abused by burglars, stalkers and spies.
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#14Meta doesn’t even need to use this, they’re just going to be constantly recording all video and audio from those rayban glasses ;)
Smart move, Zuck.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Neither of these two things are something that DoorDash as a company can realistically do anything about.
If only there was some other kind of employment model where people had regular shifts and they were paid consistently and transparently. Unfortunately I also do my office work by logging into an app at 6AM every day and bidding on a white collar job for a mystery amount of time and money
I am pretty sure that DoorDash employs quite a few of people for their tasks at hand.
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#16There was a startup that did this in the mid 2010s named Magic, but was just via SMS. I used it a few times to get random things done, and it was really useful when it was cheap, then it became mega expensive.
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#17So they’re training a model
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#18Introducing DoorDash Deskilling.
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#19I wonder who can give tasks. And how do they combat potential abuse cases. Surely there is lot of tasks that can be exploited for more nefarious purposes. Or just simply exploiting those that would do the tasks.
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#20Labour getting ever-granular in the age of micro-loans and RentAHuman. > "Dashers have a new way to earn on their own terms" The classic meaning inversion of precariousness and lack of benefits as a virtue.
Neither of these two things are something that DoorDash as a company can realistically do anything about.
DoorDash lobbies heavily against laws that would regulate labor, or classify its workers as “employees” and thus require they be covered by the minimal protections our country offers.