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RE: San Francisco joins the fight to make Uber and Lyft drivers employees
The guy on the left with the '$17 million' board makes a good point. Silicon Valley works by disrupting industries and extracting all the value to a select few at the top, whereas the decentralization movement aims to counter that exact scenario.
yea true... i guess thats perks of USA capitalism? the same thing is much worse with pharmacies in USA because no country in the world has as insane medicine prices since USA does not negotiate a set price with the companies but just lets capitalistic monopolies controll the market... but also means there might be some future blockchain uber that would comepletely decentralize it and make UBER a fling from the past... though i dont see how you could decentralize uber completely as you would always need someone to allocate funding towards self driving cars or whatever and get the human labor cost out of the equation...
Already happening:
even those scooters have still a human element but they are pretty good already... the app pays a few euro to people who pick up these scooters to charge them at home and place the scooters in the right location... its just a few euros for people who want to make a side income and people end up snatching each other scooters that they pick up from under each others noses which is frustrating... not much money and just a side income for people who want to make ends meet.