New York Times Opinion
“Do you think you should have to give up all your rights at work if you’re hired via an app instead of a more traditional way of getting a job?” asks Terri Gerstein, the director of the N.Y.U. Wagner Labor Initiative. “I don’t think so.” Over the past few years, the gig model has expanded from drivers and delivery workers to restaurant and hotel workers, health care workers and even early childhood educators. “Gig companies engage in the fiction that all of their workers are running their very own curiously identical, totally independent businesses,” Terri says. “I mean, the idea that a restaurant dishwasher is running their own totally independent business — are they going with a Maytag strapped to their back from place to place? It’s totally ludicrous.” #capitalism #gigworker #nytopinion
New York Times Opinion
“You may have heard the city of Detroit is experiencing a comeback, which is true,” says Farah Stockman, an @nytopinion editorial board member. But the resources that have flooded Detroit are largely concentrated in the downtown area. “All this money is going into pretty much seven square miles in a city about 20 times that size,” she says. A lot of this money is wrapped up in megaprojects like luxury condos that are subsidized by tax breaks and “sweetheart land deals to billionaires,” according to Farah. “It’s got a lot of native Detroiters feeling like, ‘Hey, are my tax dollars subsidizing the very forces that are making it impossible for me to afford to live here?’” | 📷Cydni Elledge #detroit #recession #capitalism #nytopinion
