Care For The Caregivers, and Short Story, "The AppCare Giver"
Excerpt from, "Full Dashclosure, Awakening from the human exploitation of DoorDash Singularity," by Jeff Thomas Black
Care For The Caregivers, February 16, 2023
"California-based Alice Care operates a bit like DoorDash or Uber, allowing people to hire caregivers on short-term notice for a wide range of needs." "Hiring a helper for senior care could be like calling an Uber — the new frontier of the gig economy."
I reject this "new frontier of the gig economy," as yet another financial scheme, composed of business plans which will result in neither better employment, nor better care of human beings; by other human beings. Human beings that deserve the dignity of employment, and must be sanely, gainfully, and rewardingly supervised in a dependable field with fair standards, in a functional healthcare system. That’s a tall order, even for Healthcare 3.0 (see ZDoggMD); and gigapps are nothing but AI-driven progress in the wrong direction.
Senior care is about humanity, understanding, compassion, and relationships; not commodified and transactional servants who can be summoned on-demand. A caregiver workforce with stable jobs, adequate benefits, and living-wage compensation is required for improved availability of a reliable and trained workforce for the provision of direct care. But better through a healthier and more productive HUMAN WORKFORCE, rather than through dehumanizing gigapp-based, on-demand labor commodification.
I don't like having such anger in my heart, as I felt today when I read about the underpaid workforce of caregivers being coerced into serving corporate overlords operating smartphone-isolated AI gigapps. What's in it for the worker? "Flexibility?" They're already flexible as hell. The corporate cabal of the global gig economy grift wants numerous willingly-waiting workforces like the multiple millions of DoorDash Dashers. They don’t want to hire these millions of laborers, however. Gig economy corporations represent “Cannibalistic Capitalism,” work offered as commodity prices, to labor who stands at the ready to deliver on-demand services.
Those services, however are glaringly and insanely absent any traditional social contract necessary and incumbent upon legitimate employment contracts. Destitute labor is deceived and coerced into providing the necessary capital investments and expenses necessary for unsuccessful, untrained, and poorly serviced field operations; suffering with only un-empowered third-party contractor phone, chat, and email support. It’s a corporate dream world, with no responsibility to share in the substantial operational risks of driving and transport and the plausible deniability as self-styled technology companies, meaning they don’t really DO anything, own anything, employ large numbers, or provide innovation with valuable services; but they do take a cut of ALL the transactions.
The gig economy is made up of virtual companies running AI schemes upon humanity; overcharging consumers while adding no human value and grievously exploiting labor. The corporate cabal of the gig economy wants gigapp labor to wait patiently and UNPAID; then to appear gratefully, ON-DEMAND. AI-managed caregivers will still serve in the HUMAN world, at the convenience of someone (and/or a family) who may or may not be in a personal or medical crisis. It takes special human beings to do such hard mental and physical work as a caregiver, who is fully RESPONSIBLE and ACCOUNTABLE to provide compassionate care in the lives of human beings in need of aforementioned medical, intimate, and other highly-demanding personal care services.
In this new gigapp hellscape, the patient can now be further separated from any stable bond with the caregiver, who in the new frontier of gigapp Independent Contractor, is NOT contractually their customer. Independent contractors of the gig economy grift represent nothing and are backed by no one. All else is simply AI gamification, gamblification, and market simulations. Illusions of world class data science backed corporate marketing magic, hideously hidden from uninformed victims behind abusive and deceptive Independent Contractor Agreements.
Gig economy gigapps are foundational to the globally-funded corporate system that was created for low-capital-cost mobile human exploitation, via the proven AI-run smartphone applications of modern appslavery. The Corporation runs the engineering, marketing, and has founders and executives who collectively take massive percentages of the revenue in a public company that shows no "profit." The grift is SO deep. And, if you're a gigapp laborer; a Dasher; THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU.
There IS no other purpose, but to subvert the already downtrodden labor forces of the U.S. and the world. The wealthy would never submit themselves to such a fate. They're special. They won the game. The workforce targets of the gig economy are increasingly made up of very difficult, uncomfortable and inconvenient tasks; the type often completed by immigrant-heavy labor groups.
Oligarch-owned societies long ago culturally codified that humans DOING the MOST direct, physically-performed, and dangerous tasks, deserve the LEAST protection, respect, and social status; thus, justifying both heinous working conditions, and exploitation in their COMPENSATION.
Of course those appslavery victims which are easiest to openly cheat and exploit are the targets. They've always been the targets. They'll have AI gigapps running prisons! They'll have AI gigapps running populations and nations. Beware.
"The AppCare Giver," a Short Story, by Jeff Thomas Black
“What was a JOB like, Grandma? Did you actually know other workers that did tasks like yours, and sometimes meet them in person?"
"Yes, Dear," said Grandma.
"And you were an 'uncontracted person,' before. So you could survive on more than your chip data? And did you have those, 'human experiences?'"
Grandma sighed, and shifted in her seat without wincing; trying not to look like she was tired of answering the same questions every week when the Empire's "Service Stars," were released and the Honorably High Achiever Club double bonus points were awarded in addition to shining digital "Diamonds," each of great quality and undoubtedly non-fungible.
"I know the resistance says we're not 'free' now. Were 'human experiences,' why people say they were 'free' before gigapps?"
"Yes, dear," said Grandma.
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