NYCers have a new ridehailing alternative to Uber: The Drivers Cooperative is a driver-owned, app-based ride-hailing service that pays drivers more, charges riders less, and pays out any profits to driver-owners as periodic dividends.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/28/technology/nyc-uber-lyft-the-drivers-cooperative.html
Platform cooperativism is a powerful antidote to app-based gig work: a way to provide customers with the convenience that made app-based services so popular while putting workers in control of their days, schedules and conditions.
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@pluralistic I only used Uber once because I was at a friends house and we both got very intoxicated and I needed a way home, but outside of that one time in 2017 I wouldn't use them again. It's kinda scary and the company is shady af
Something like this could fix those things though!!
