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  1. CW: Long thread/20

    Think of labor law: as #VeenaDubal writes, gig-work companies practice #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, turning your paycheck into a slot machine that pays out more when you are more selective about which jobs you take, and which then docks your pay by tiny increments as you become less discriminating about answering the app's call:

    pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg

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  2. CW: Long thread/20

    Like Lyft, Uber practices #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination, #VeenaDubal's term describing the illegal practice of offering workers different payouts for the same work. Uber's algorithm seeks out "pickers" who are choosy about which rides they take, and converts them to "ants" (who take every ride offered) by paying them more for the same job, until they drop all their other gigs, whereupon the algorithm cuts their pay back to the rates paid to ants:

    pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg

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