2026-04-22 15:31 UTC
The Roosevelt Institute report contained many eye-popping findings, most notably that at least some of the leading national nursing gig-work platforms were using data-brokers to find out how much debt nurses were carrying, and offered lower wages to the nurses with the most debt, on the grounds that the most economically desperate nurses will accept the lowest pay:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loose-flapping-ends/#luigi-has-a-point
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-04-22 15:31
The new report describes how, in the absence of a muscular policy response, these nursing gig-work companies have raised *fantastic* sums of money, some of which they have diverted to regulatory capture projects in a bid to states to recognize their solar-panel sex-machines, with great success. 14/