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Re:The startup economy is fundamentally broken and the virus... by ethbro on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:06AM (#23246373)
Because gig economy businesses successfully lower the friction of getting a job.

By having an on demand workforce, they can fire (aka not schedule) much more easily. Consequently, they can also hire easily.

There's a non-negligible pool of people who hate job applications and interviews, but want a paycheck.

Re:The startup economy is fundamentally broken and the virus... by qeternity on Thursday May 21, 2020 @03:14AM (#23255663)
But how is this Uber screwing people over?