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A pizzeria owner in Kansas realizes that DoorDash is hijacking his pizzas. A Lyft driver conquers the streets of San Francisco until he unwittingly puts his family in danger. A Shipt shopper in Denton, Texas tries to crack the code of the delivery app that is slashing his pay. This week, Host Latif Nasser, Producer Becca Bressler, and Philosophy Professor Barry Lam dive into the ins and outs of a new and growing part of our world: the gig economy.  Special thanks to, Julie Wernau, Drew Ambrogi, David Condo, David Pickerell, Cory Doctorow, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Coby McDonald, Bret Jaspers, Peter Haden, Bill Pollock, Tanya Chawla, and Mateo Schimpf. Episode Credits: Reported by Becca Bressler, Latif Nasser, and Barry Lam Produced by Becca Bressler, Eli Cohen, and Sindhu Gnanasambandan. Original music and sound design contributed by Jeremy Bloom and Becca Bressler. Mixing help from Arianne Wack Fact-checking by Natalie Middleton Edited by Pat Walters CITATIONS Articles: Subscribe to Ranjan Roy's newsletter,

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