The sound of money reminds me of those debilitating devices of Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron.

I swear that the background music is a cartoon network jingle on a loop

In the sharing economy no one  can hear you work. This is because companies like Uber, Lyft, Postmates and others only employ "partners" or independent contractors. So your host decided to partner with Andrew Callaway, a 25 year old San Francisco native, to find out what its like to work in the sharing economy. As the official ToE instapoder Andrew will drive, shop, clean, deliver, and serve for a whole month, and he’s going to record his entire experience.  Plus in this episode technology journalist Sarah Lacey tells us the truth about Uber.
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Instaserfs (part one of three)

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"Benjamen Walker's Theory of Everything" a proud member of PRX's Radiotopia collective. http://radiotopia.fm 
"Too Much Information" WFMU (2009 - 2013)
"The Big Ideas Podcast" The Guardian UK (2011 - 2012) 

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