IIUC Lyft and Uber rely on drivers letting total strangers who have the Lyft and/or Uber apps on their phones to be let into the drivers’ cars.
And btw driver-workers of such gig economy typically do not face the same vetting process that official licensed cab drivers undergo, IIUC.
Completely agree that gig economy companies suck.
Fuck capitalism.
Here’s how Saudi money is laundered by Uber–something I first found out about over at pluralistic.net (Cory Doctorow’s project that started when he left bOING).
The 35-page analysis, compiled in part by the nonprofit research group The Aerospace Corporation, offers a dire picture of the potential dangers associated with large networks of satellites such as Starlink, suggesting that by 2035, “if the expected large constellation growth is realized and debris from Starlink satellites survive reentry … one person on the planet would be expected to be injured or killed every two years.”
It also estimates that the probability of an aircraft being downed by a collision with falling space debris could be 0.0007 per year by 2035.
for a world where you have to use a financial windfall to clear yourself of being wrongly convicted.