Cory Doctorow shared the story of a startup that is "Uber for Nursing."

The service buys the credit reports of nurses on the platform, and offers nurses who have debt a lower fee for completing jobs.

This is gross–it's not about "how able is this person to pay back a debt to me" but about "what is the lowest price I can pay this person."

Capitalism, like any swarming phenomena, is powerful, but has monkey paw kinds of dynamics due to Goodhart's Law.

The frame of "Uber for" is inherently short-term and transactional.

What's gross is this powerful entity squeezing less powerful entities.

What if the gig workers had agents that collectively bargained on their behalf?^[kh]