Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/23/the-gig-economy-has-come-for-eviction-enforcement.html
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Where is the main character from the film, “Hobo with a shotgun” when you need him?
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What would it take to"disrupt" the labor side of this? Maybe a system to generate thousands of new android accounts that install the app onto emulators? Then the system could automatically accept the jobs… and then just not do them.
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Hm. A whole fascist state built up from gig jobs?
Stazee would be a nice app name. (After they bust the police unions, that could be a niche.)
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I’ve read articles that mention you need to pay to be able to get jobs, which would make an attack like this less feasible.
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Crowdfund it!
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The thug economy.
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“Exploit all the things!!”
[what you get when the gig-economy meets a bottom-feeder f*ck barrel industry]
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What’s the problem with this? Y’all precious snow flakes think you don’t need to pay rent.
Huh, who could be knocking so loudly on my front door at this hour? BRB…
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Seems like a good job, you can probably get good tips from people if you report they weren’t home or otherwise available.
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Except Friend Computer will very quickly note your inability to ‘complete’ sufficient jobs in the expected period and no longer assign you jobs.
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Quite a strategy to sic the precariously employed on their own kith.
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"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. " – Jay Gould (attributed)
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So now we’re using the financial desperation and indifferent cruelty as a way to get strangers who can’t find work to evict strangers undergoing financial desperation and indifferent cruelty…who can’t find work…as a business model?
Like, people are literally being paid to help enforce the same situation on others if they don’t get scratch together themselves?
I could never duplicate this form of Faustian machination economy if I tried.
Every time I think I’ve seen the real bottom of the bucket this year, zombie Billy Mays shows up
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The app should be called Raus.
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Also, I didn’t realise this would be prescient quite so soon (albeit with somewhat fewer designer drugs and DRMed body enhancments - for now):
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We’ve had the DRMed body enhancements for a while. See insulin pumps.
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Instead of employing the plebians to evict the plebians, in a never ending nightmare circle, how about an app that attacks the roots of the problem- something that makes a gig economy for the same fucked over populace to firing, jailing, and fining the assholes in power and responsible for this hell thrown out?
Like, an app that leads to public shaming, legal, and financial consequences for Wells Fargo CEOs, hedge fund managers, and Republicans in congress?
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Come now, let’s be Civvl about this… 
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No thanks.
I prefer the COVID-generated “corpse stacker” jobs.
Soon I hope to move up to gravedigger, or pyre-tender.
Less guilt, and no complaining and threats from the victims.
Plus you get to work alone. Sort of.
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