Gig workers are organising in tech-savvy ways
I'm surprised it's taken this long for some tech enabled labor platform to emerge.  Power is gained by coordinating some portion of the value chain into a single node.  Amazon is powerful because they can centralize demand into a single node (Amazon.com) and then force suppliers to play their game.  Saudi Arabia is powerful because they can centralize the supply of oil into a single node (AramCo) and then force buyers to pay their price via OPEC.<p>Labor doesn't have a centralizing node, and is consequently  powerless.  Even engineers, relatively well paid as they are, are somewhat powerless.  The high salary commanded here is due to autonomous market forces, not a coordinated strategy.<p>Unions used to be strong before the 70s but they've gotten successfully defanged by political parties.<p>There's definitely room for building MASSIVE and powerful without the political corruption of yesteryear's unions.