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Don't forget what happened to Walnut when it priced its moving services for fairness and equity: https://medium.com/@nickbkim/why-were-closing-walnut-a452225...

Everyone wants fairness and equity until the time comes for each to pay for it.

I'm saying this in a disappointed tone as I really would like platform cooperatives to work but they're going to fail to compete in a relatively open market of a capitalist society. Also, everyone working in IT for these platforms becomes the exploited. It's inverted exploitation. Programmer: you're being paid less than what you'd make in a free market. If you're not getting your flat cleaned twice a week as a member of this cooperative, you're doing it wrong. You, my friend, are being taken to the proverbial cleaners.

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