What's really significant is that the tech industry is slowly creating new job markets via 'app-driven services'. Doordash, grubhub, amazon, and google's instant delivery services are other examples that can contribute to this new trend.
The technology infrastructure for instant/convenient buying, selling, and delivery of goods and services has been built out. Now it can truly scale by staffing massive amounts of people to actually carry out the tasks surrounding it.
What's also really significant is that the majority of these jobs are minimum-wage, minimum-training, completely-replaceable jobs. What these people are doing is essentially an interface between software and reality - they are human robots.
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What's really significant is that the tech industry is slowly creating new job markets via 'app-driven services'. Doordash, grubhub, amazon, and google's instant delivery services are other examples that can contribute to this new trend.
The technology infrastructure for instant/convenient buying, selling, and delivery of goods and services has been built out. Now it can truly scale by staffing massive amounts of people to actually carry out the tasks surrounding it.
What's also really significant is that the majority of these jobs are minimum-wage, minimum-training, completely-replaceable jobs. What these people are doing is essentially an interface between software and reality - they are human robots.
Just a temporary hold over until we have proper automated delivery machinery. And we did just get that self driving car article.
Well, here's some food for thought on all those new "job markets" created:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3027355/pixel-and-dimed-on-not-ge...