Om Malik wrote about the phenomenon recently and called it “Data Darwinism.” He meant that in our emerging “quantified society” with an on-demand workforce, survival of the fittest also means the firing of the low-rated. Alazzeh claimed that 500 drivers were removed from the service in February and replaced, in some cases, with non-union drivers. The disruptions of the application-driven economy will be far reaching, Malik observes, but “the challenges of the connected future are less technical and more legislative, political and philosophical.”

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