Please tell me this is a joke! It is, right?
Please tell me this is a joke! It is, right?
After the Etsy strike, crafting a cooperative alternative https://news.techworkerscoalition.org/2023/05/30/issue-8/
Basically, Etsy enshittified, making an income on etsy is worse and worse, the company ignored the strike, now its time to move on to a cooperative alternative, @coopartisans and https://artisans.coop/
The gig economy is working for the owners of the gig economy.
In the UK, a recent study found that 52% of gig workers were making BELOW minimum wage. Minimum.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/may/gig-economy-worker-research.html
An old one I just read: The Gervais Principle, or the Office according to the office! A perhaps oversimplified but nevertheless edifying theory of organizations based in The Office that has a lot to say about corporate labor.
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/