Delivery Workers, Trapped in the System
chuangcn.org
“For all those riders who are still fighting against time on the road, all I can do is to pray quietly for them in my heart.”

Also see "The New Rules of Algorithmic Institutions" and "Logistics Genealogies" by Stefano harney https://www.academia.edu/35934398/The_New_Rules_of_Algorithmic_Institutions_by_Stefano_Harney

https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7227&context=lkcsb_research

The struggle by gig economy workers is global.

  • LibsEatPoop2 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    “Navigation” investigates how the use of an algorithmic system allows the platform to generate demands that would be unreasonable from another human, including driving against the flow of traffic, achieving delivery times that would only be possible by flying, and even going through walls.

    Literal Snow Crash. Why does China have to be so confusing? Sometimes they appear as the only bastion for socialism and other times they are the ideal capitalist state. Like, are they carrying forward the torch of the Soviet Union or the United States? Or are they an unholy child of the two 20th century superpowers?

    EDIT - Okay, I just finished reading the article. This is pure, unfiltered capitalism. How can anyone who reads this article still claim China is socialist is beyond me. This is capitalism taken further than possible anywhere else, including the US. The reason China's is rising and US if falling is because China is better at capitalism. Simple. Socialism with Chinese Characteristics is Capitalism. Got it.

    Fucking hell.