​How Uber Profits Even While Its Drivers Aren't Earning Money

"If I'm doing something useful for the company, I should be paid for that time,” Mark says to me as he drives me over the Brooklyn Bridge. “That's what work is, right?” It seems like a simple enough principle. And yet when it comes to the nature of work in the digital platform economy, getting paid for that time is anything but a simple proposition. Mark has a special appreciation for what constitutes value to a corporation.
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