[evanlivingston]

Doesn't this PR work underline the darker side of TaskRabbit, or at least clearly demonstrate that TakRabbit is leveraging income disparity to profit? That is, some people either want or need money enough that they are willing pull a 90 hour shift so someone else with spare money can get an expensive phone arbitrarily early.

[sbov]

If they were doing anything other than holding a place in line, maybe.

It has the potential to become exploitive, but until companies start hiring employees through task rabbit in batches of 90 hour shifts, I'm not going to worry about it.

[brcrth]

So what's wrong with this? People are not being forced to do anything.

[tfe]

Isn't that how our economy works?

[rhizome]

The entire concept of employment hinges on one person giving another money. Just because you can call it something scary-academic like "leveraging income disparity," doesn't change the facts and doesn't make it wrong. Where then is the darkness?