I like the idea of people paying more for socially responsible services but in my experience it unfortunately doesn’t work, not with customers and not with investors. Some people are aware and care enough, but most people aren’t and don’t.

You have to force people to do it. And that requires lobbying pressure from the groups affected. I’m not sure how minimum wage and various protections came about in the past, maybe it was the old school way where somebody like Teddy Roosevelt stepped in, but I don’t think that will happen unless gig workers get organized, which they probably won’t. Our system is designed to prevent that (people work too much to pay basic bills, lots of social media garbage/noise, an increasingly expensive lobbying environment).

Unfortunately, tech has optimized so much that it has exposed all of us to a harsh global competitive environment and if you don’t have special skills you’re increasingly screwed and those in power don’t have any compassion or empathy, so in a very cynical view — why should they? Because it destabilizes society and it actually harms our economic health and less of the population can afford to buy goods and services? Maybe we need another Teddy Roosevelt, but short of that, there doesn’t seem to be a practical solution on the horizon.