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Worker-owned co-ops are coming for the digital gig economy
"As companies like Uber and Handy flail, they’ve cleared a path for worker-owned digital platforms to replace them–and now, there’s a new toolkit to help them get started."
https://www.fastcompany.com/40575728/worker-owned-co-ops-are-coming-for-the-digital-gig-economy
@h "To that end, Scholz’s organization, the Platform Cooperative Consortium at The New School, is debuting a Platform Co-op Development Kit. With a $1 million startup grant from Google.org (part of a $50 million economic development grant competition), the Kit will help bring worker cooperatives into the digital economy, and fund the buildout of platforms that will support their work."
This concerns me a bit... I'd prefer Google to stay out of the platform coop world, TBH