Nickle and Dimed in AI Age: How Veena Dubal Figured Out Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Extract Maximum Labor at Minimum Cost

Nickle and Dimed in AI Age: How Veena Dubal Figured Out Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Extract Maximum Labor at Minimum Cost

In January 2023, a 55-page paper appeared on SSRN — the Social Science Research Network, where academics post working drafts before formal publication — under the title “On Algorithmic Wage Discrimination.” Its author was Veena Dubal, a professor of law at the University of California, Irvine. Its argument was, in retrospect, disarmingly precise: that Uber,… The post Nickle and Dimed in AI Age: How Veena Dubal Figured Out Uber, Lyft, DoorDash Ex…