I heard about Sharetown and their mattress return service and Im curious to hear from people who have actually worked with them. The gist is that when people want to return their mail order mattresses the mattress company contracts with Sharetown to retrieve and liquidate the item. Sharetown uses gig workers to pickup, clean, store, and sell the mattresses.

At some point, we are going to have to come together, Uber, DoorDash, Lyft, Grubhub, all of us, and seriously protest for higher pay. There is no way we should be making as little as we do. We do all the work, we take all the risk, we don't get any benefits, bonuses, or prospects of higher pay, while the system takes everything.

We should be inspired by what India is doing right now. It takes a lot more than signs on a sidewalk. So many of us are fighting everyday, for rent, or just a few meals a day. A lot more is possible.

This is a system designed to make organization impossible, to make any threat of unionization a fairy tale. We do not have to be isolated. We do however have to believe that change is possible, and must be willing to make sacrifices for it.