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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by mahyarm on Monday April 10, 2017 @02:34PM (#14081265)
Can you give an example? I'm trying to think of how that would apply to the typical Uber driver. Do you mean they would be working during surge time more because they get paid more?
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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by EliRivers on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:23PM (#14100917)
An Uber driver sees a job come in. The customer wants to go from point A to point B. The customer want this to happen in the next ten minutes.

The Uber driver has the choice of taking this job, or not. The Uber driver cannot decide to do the job in three hours time.

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Re:The Gig Economy’s False Promise by mahyarm on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:00PM (#14109378)
The customer can also choose to not give the job in 3 hours time and give it to someone else, app or not.
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