Not beside the point. Good or bad, this feature will mean that some workers will see less trips and make less money. That’s a simple mathematical fact.

Alternatively, in a world where gig workers made a livable salary regardless of the number of jobs slung their way, these safety changes would be much more decoupled from affecting the take-home pay of one of the poorest sector of workers in this country.

Everyone in the comments getting played like a fiddle, the real takeaway here is that all “gig economy” workers deserve a guaranteed hourly salary at a livible wage

Probably doesn’t help that all fish are now chock full of PFAS

Who knew that just a couple of decades later, humans would collectively decide that watching buffering 720p YouTube videos from the middle of the Pacific would be more important than whatever all those weird TV dishes in the background are doing

I don’t believe that there are microwave-safe plastics

Lenovo has spent the last decade destroying the repairablity of ThinkPads. They’ve only ‘rediscovered’ the ‘innovations’ they stripped from their laptops, like a removable battery, because they are scared of framework.