"You learn the most about Uber's business model from its drivers ... about FaceBook from its content moderators ... about Google from its contactors, who are essentially employees but are misclassified, for a multitude of reasons.
These are the places where where you learn the most [about] the most vulnerable population ... how they're treated by people immediately above them who have more power."
#EdwardOngwesoJr, 2025
https://techwontsave.us/episode/215_kara_swisher_shows_tech_journalisms_flaws_w_edward_ongweso_jr
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Side note: earlier in the interview Ongweso Jr mentions tech writers mistaking Uber (and AirBnB, etc) for a brave new "sharing economy", where apps facilitate peer-to-peer exchanges among citizens, to unlock the economic value of underused assets. Remember that old chestnut?
Called it. Back in 2015;
Intriguingly this article seems to have been removed from TDB. Maybe a good candidate for a repost on the new Ghost-based Disintermedia.net.nz?
