After years of getting squeezed by Uber and Lyft, a national rideshare cooperative is offering drivers equity stakes that Silicon Valley refuses to grant.

Fucking stellar news, they are smol and broke for now, but sweeping gig economy via an app is promising avenue (somewhat, either force them to bleed more money if it fails or fuck them if it doesn't - which requires solidarity and boycotts of uber, which treat hounds likely won't do). Still pog to try

  • miz [any, any]
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    7 days ago

    it's always suspicious to me when stories like this don't put the NAME of the cooperative in the fucking headline or subhead

    bourgeois media also does this with political candidates they want to ignore to avoid boosting their name recognition

    • miz [any, any]
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      7 days ago

      followup: it's called Driver's Cooperative and the jacoffbin article fails to link to their website

      https://drivers.coop/

      • Eco [she/her, he/him]
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        7 days ago

        honestly i think "drivers dot coop" is a better name than "driver's cooperative"

    • glans [it/its]
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      7 days ago

      Its called "Drivers Cooperative" which is so forgettable I had to check it wasn't in the heading.

      Need a different name like "Coop" "Co⬆️up" "go up co op" idk. "Freedom" "liberty" whatever.