[tech] Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet … Doctorow discusses enshitification, twiddling and more… ‘A recent study described how nurses are increasingly getting work through one of three main apps that “”bill themselves out as ‘Uber for nursing'””. The nurses never know what they will be paid per hour prior to accepting a shift and the three companies act as a cartel in order to “”play all kinds of games with the way that labor is priced””. In particular, the companies purchase financial information from a data broker before offering a nurse a shift; if the nurse is carrying a lot of credit-card debt, especially if some of that is delinquent, the amount offered is reduced. “”Because, the more desperate you are, the less you’ll accept to come into work and do that grunt work of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying.”” That is horrific on many levels, he said, but “”it is emblematic of ‘enshittification'””, which is one of the reasons he highlighted it.’ [The Keynote can be found on Youtube]
Cory Doctorow on Enshitification, Twiddling and More…
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