By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026Gig platforms like Uber use surveillance data about their drivers to predict which workers are most desperate, and those drivers are offered *less* money per mile and per hour, because a desperate worker will take whatever is on offer. 16/ 13413
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026Gig work apps for health-care do the same thing to nurses: pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/l... 17/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1170
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/04/2026Indeed, surveillance pricing is a kind of cod-Marxism. Instead of "from each to their own ability, to each according to their need," the "efficient" surveillance pricing motto is, "from each according to their desperation, to each according to our power": pluralistic.net/2025/01/11/s... 18/pluralistic.netPluralistic: The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 3) (11 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2221
