It's not a crime if we do it (to nurses) with an app

hn_acker 12 points 2 comments April 22, 2026
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pixl97

>The Roosevelt Institute report contained many eye-popping findings, most notably that at least some of the leading national nursing gig-work platforms were using data-brokers to find out how much debt nurses were carrying, and offered lower wages to the nurses with the most debt, on the grounds that the most economically desperate nurses will accept the lowest pay:

itopaloglu83

Even though constitutions are written to limit government power, private companies can become just as dangerous when they know too much about you.

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