janrito

I don't think you can make the argument — in good faith — that the current requirements are too onerous.

Facilitating the exploitation of vulnerable people in order to provide cheap services for customers with much more price flexibility and increase the profit margin of VCs is a political decision. One that I will not support, and I'm glad our collective government is acting against it. It does not go far enough.

Why should we as a society, or even worse, poor immigrats, subsidise a company's bad business model.

If you want to compete for labour and customers in a society, you should follow the rules.

If you cannot provide food deliveries whilst paying your employees fairly, then you should not be in business.

Even worse if you are skimming minimum-wage worker's pay to produce a 10X VC return.

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...

Thanks for the message! You are right, these kind of methods have a lot of potential. This specific project was setup as an experiment, as part of our wider work on retail data.

Our software in fact uses similar methods to help retailers understand what’s selling or what’s not selling, to spot trends and figure out pricing. We’ll be teaming up with our in-house dev team to bring these new experiments into retailers daily work in the future!