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This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs," proposing a theory of the relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power (happy #MayDay!).
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Let's break it down. Start with "#chickenization": this is a labor economics term referring to industries that follow the model of the American poultry industry. 3/
Gig work companies like Uber and Doordash are committed to misclassifying their workers as contractors, which lets them escape employer obligations like a minimum wage, health care or worker's comp (driving for Uber/Lyft is one of the most dangerous jobs in America). 1/
These companies spent $225m to pass California's #Prop22, a ballot initiative that formalized worker misclassification, paving the way for all kinds of companies to convert employees to contractors at the stroke of a pen:
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Hilariously, all that money was wasted. Prop 22 was unconstitutional. It usurped the assembly's constitutional duty to establish universal worker's comp. It was (idiotically) drafted such that if any clause was struck the whole thing was invalid.
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"Innovation" is in very bad odor these days. "Disruption" is even more disreputable. 1/
But as tech and the global south researcher @qadrida writes in @wired, "innovation" isn't limited to inventing unregulated banks and calling them "fintech" and "disruption" is more than just misclassifying employees as contractors.
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Qadri studies workers who are seizing the means of computation, reverse-engineering and repurposing the apps that are meant to keep them in bondage and setting themselves free. Her research on gig drivers in Jakarta is essential reading:
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KELUARGA PEMELIHARA TUYUL
sebuah kisah pengalaman mistis dari Probolinggo
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#FotoIlustrasiByGoogle #Horor #Pesugihan #Tuyul #Probolinggo
sebuah kisah pengalaman mistis dari Probolinggo
a thread
#FotoIlustrasiByGoogle #Horor #Pesugihan #Tuyul #Probolinggo
Kali ini aku akan membawakan kisah yang sempat membuat warga di kampungku resah pada sekitar tahun 2011. Yak kampungku berada di kota Probolinggo, Jawa Timur.
Saat itu aku masih posisi liburan kuliah atau proses pengerjaan skripsi, yang mana lebih banyak waktuku berada di rumah orang tua dari pada di kosku di Jember.
Gojek is a $10B Indonesian "super app" that combines "Postmates, Apple Pay, Venmo, and Uber" serviced by an army of ojol - drivers - who are subjected to all the high-handed algorithmic horrors that gig workers everywhere suffer through.
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But Indonesian ojol aren't helpless before their apps; a legion of toolsmiths produce, share, sell and support "#tuyul apps" named for "a child-like spirit in Indonesian folklore that helps his human master earn money by stealing," which modify the Gojek app.
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As part of her MIT PhD, @qadrida studied Gojek, ojol and tuyul apps, and her account of the grey-market Gojek ecosystem for @motherboard is riveting.
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