By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/07/2026Here's an irony: the "gig economy" is a statistical black hole. Workers, customers and regulators know very little about the most basic aspects of it: how much workers get paid, for example, or much unpaid time on the clock a worker puts in before they get a job from the app. 1/ 2293111
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Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Gökhan Fırat has a very interesting PhD on gig workers on language service platforms 011