In het artikel “Rule-Making as Structural Violence: From a Taxi to Uber Economy in San Francisco” beschrijft Veena Dubal hoe de overheid de burger in de steek laat en IT-boefjes hun gang laat gaan. Ze schrijft onder meer:

Today, workers’ wages across the Uber-taxi divide are roughly 65% of what they were in 2010. They are often below the minimum wage. Told through the eyes of workers, the case study of how regulators responded to rule-breaking platforms and created the city’s contemporary Uber economy can neither be explained through innovation fanaticism nor fundamentally through a politics of efficiency and deregulation. Taxi workers understood innovation discourse as obscuring both their everyday hardships and corruptive, though legal, state practices. And they reframed the law in this process as playing an active role in undermining democratic principles, producing the myth of a free market, and exacerbating political and economic inequalities. As Mark wrote to me in a text following the fifth recent suicide of a taxi driver, “The invisible hand has shown its hand.”

 

Hoe de overheid de burger in de steek laat en IT-boefjes hun gang laat gaan #disruptie

“taxi workers … reframed the law in this process as playing an active role in undermining democratic principles, producing the myth of a free market” https://t.co/spmJj2pHPp

— Ellen Timmer (@Ellen_Timmer) 28 juni 2018