Systematically driving down the wages of the people you expect to catch a bullet for you by gig-ifying their industry seems like a pretty terrible idea if you’re someone who depends on armed security for your continued existence.
I guess I’ll go make some popcorn.
Would you trust your life to be well-protected by someone you hire for $18/hour in a gig economy?
Grifters gonna grift.
Awesome idea for an app!
The capitalists will “efficiency” aka be greedy and pocket what they should have spent on their app’s vetting process into being useless, basically opening the door to hiring potential heroes who wish to do the right thing being given the capitalist’s location and being invited to show up armed.
Five stars!
Surge pricing when?
Countdown to when they make the public pay for it again like they did when they pushed for their private security to be made into police forces.
They should’ve called it Goonr
That’s a totally different service
Sure would be a shame if a bunch of normal people hired them for bachelorette parties and stuff, preventing them from responding to CEO requests.
Just sayin’… our 15th Wedding Anniversary is coming up, who wouldn’t want an Escalade entourage? ;)
That’s who is going to be hiring them though. People who have no need for such security because they were never in any danger to begin with, but had the money to throw away on this either because they’re paranoid or they want to show off.
CEOs can afford Academi.
They CAN, but they are also notoriously cheap. :)
I do wonder what this service costs though.
This is real?!? When I first heard about this, I thought it was a joke.
You know what this reminds me of? Commercials from Robocop:
