These companies are reminiscent of Uber and Lyft a decade ago, says Glenn Danas, a partner at the law firm Clarkson, which is suing Mercor and several other data platforms. Yet in some ways these workers are in a worse position, more replaceable despite their advanced degrees. Uber drivers have to be physically present in a city to work, and they can organize and push for regulation there. If the same were to happen with data workers, companies could just recruit from somewhere else where people will work for less. When Mercor cut pay for its Meta project to $16 per hour, it dropped below the minimum wage in California and other states, yet people there kept working because they needed the money. This was something at least one supervisor acknowledged, writing in Slack, “While we won’t actively hire from any states where the minimum wage is above the project’s rate, if you are already active on the project and would like to work at the $16/hr rate, we want to enable you to do so.”
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