[HN Gopher] How we've enshittified the tech economy
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       How we've enshittified the tech economy
        
       Author : jrepinc
       Score  : 26 points
       Date   : 2023-10-04 19:07 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
        
       | araes wrote:
       | The article is "kind" of about the enshittified tech economy. It
       | uses Amazon and Uber mostly as well known examples of bad
       | behavior (like name dropping a celebrity everybody knows is a
       | train wreck).
       | 
       | The article is mostly about attempts to create an alternative
       | using cooperative structures that aim for 50+% money going to
       | drivers / gig-workers / ect...
       | 
       | Example 1: $30/hr for 9,000 drivers in New York, NY that's
       | "almost" break even (according to the article) that focuses on
       | limited, yet high demand services. This service attempts 80%
       | drivers / 20% cooperative allocation.
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       | Example 2: Restaurant cooperative in Fort Collins, CO that got
       | pissed at Grubhub jacking rates, so they built their own delivery
       | service and charge $4.90 / order average. Now have 50% of the
       | city's business.
        
       | quantified wrote:
       | To what degree is this a "tech economy" problem vs a "business"
       | problem? Perhaps the businesses use tech, but then most do. A
       | cable internet/TV company like Comcast is more purely tech. They
       | were enshittifying long ago, which maybe proves the thesis. But I
       | have a feeling it's not strongly driven or related to tech.
        
       | kukabynd wrote:
       | Everything has been "enshittified". It's now more surprising when
       | something's not bad.
        
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