How quickly we accepted that it’s normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food.

Covid capitalized on it.

People don’t want to give up that luxury now that they’ve had it. Even if it makes things cost 2x-3x as much.

Even when we all know its exploitive labor.

It’s true delivery and driver services have been around for hundreds of years but now instead of companies with full time employees (with benefits) , the gig employee gets paid less while taking on risk that aren’t compensated by the employer (car accidents, gas, car repairs, injury or attacks).

Gig work is a much worse thing than maybe a lot of people realize. And it’s also making more people servants to others.

It’s moving full time employees with benefits and using company property to no benefits and using their own property that they have to pay for.

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      No. The environment has to be changed.

      We can stop promoting the wrong people.
      We can have harsh penalties for lying. Exploitation

      In the Netherlands, any company found to be un ethical business are barred from getting government contracts.

      Also companies with better employee benefits, unions, and pay are prioritized for government contracts.

      That’s how to combat the problem.

      But in the u.s and most of the world. The most ruthless gets the contact. The one that lies the most. Defrauds. Exploits. They get the contacts for decades.

      Most of musk’s and palantir money is from u.s tax payers.

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        The wrong people need to be eliminated. You’re too idealistic. We’re beyond voting them out.

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          The system creates these bad people.

          You have to stop the cause.

          It’s not genetics.

          Just look at Vivian Musk. Nothing like her father.