Re:We may have reached peak “gig” economy
by Jtsummers on Monday February 06, 2017 @05:27PM
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I generally agree that the "sharing" economy isn't a sharing economy. But I don't think this:
If it were a real sharing economy, the developers and system
engineers on the platform would make the same hourly rates as
the drivers. In such a way everyone would contribute to the
co-op and everyone would benefit.
follows.
Different services are worth different amounts depending on the value they yield and, sometimes, who they're targeted at. If a relatively small team of programmers can enable a massive business, then they may be deserving of apparently outsized compensation for their time and work.
Different services are worth different amounts depending on the value they yield and, sometimes, who they're targeted at. If a relatively small team of programmers can enable a massive business, then they may be deserving of apparently outsized compensation for their time and work.