 Things are gonna get pretty dicey in this country because on December 31st That is the last day that people will be protected from evictions Donald Trump's moratorium on all evictions Expires so on January 1st millions and millions of Americans are going to be expected to pony up Months of past due rent Otherwise what's gonna happen? They're gonna get evicted and if this happens then It's gonna be a disaster to say the least Now if Donald Trump is re-elected, I'm assuming That he's going to try to take action to either extend that moratorium if he knows what's good for him because he's not Able to deal with that much chaos. He's incompetent But if let's say there's the situation where Joe Biden beats him and Trump is now a lame duck president on his way out on January 20th or 21st whenever Is he going to take action? No He's going to leave Joe Biden with this gigantic eviction crisis and it's going to get really ugly It's gonna lead to civil unrest people are going to take to the streets if they have nothing to lose If you get evicted and you have nowhere to go you have no choice But to take to the streets and protest for action Now look it's not like Come December 31st all of a sudden our economic woes will disappear the virus will still be here and As a result people aren't going to have money to pay months of back rent like where is this money going to come from? We haven't done anything to ameliorate this crisis, right? People aren't getting a UBI Unemployment is through the roof. So what exactly are we going to do? And this really is an open question and it's scary to think about what will happen But in our late-stage capitalist society, we can't expect one thing The private sector is going to attempt to cash in on this crisis because the gig economy is now going to try to take this eviction crisis and pit working people against each other So where if you are in a situation where you're not making money and you've lost your job because of this pandemic well, what you can do is Work to evict your fellow Americans who have also lost everything So as Ashwin Rodriguez of vice reports during a time of great economic and general hardship civil aims to be essentially uber but for evicting people Seizing on a pandemic-driven nosedive and employment and a huge uptick in number of people who can't pay their rent civil aims to make it easy for landlords to hire process servers and Eviction agents as gig workers Helena Duncan a Chicago-based paralegal who also participates in housing activism Saw a craigslist post from civil while searching for jobs the ad alarmed her It's fucked up that there will be struggling working-class people who will be drawn to gigs like furniture hauling or process serving for a company Like civil evicting fellow working-class people from their homes so they themselves can make rent She told motherboard in its craigslist ads posted across the country civil explains the opportunity plainly There is plenty of work due to the dismal economy an employment is at a record high and many cannot or simply are not paying rent and Mortgages the ad state we are being contracted by frustrated property owners and banks to secure foreclosed residential properties civil aims to marry the gig economy with the devastation of a pandemic Complete with signature gig startup language like be your own boss and flexible hours and looking for self-motivated individuals with positive attitudes Fastest growing money-making gig due to COVID-19 its website says Literally thousands of process servers are needed in the coming months due to courts being backed up in judgments That needs to be served to defendants the company at first glance appears to be some kind of Nathan for usk prank sicken precarious gig jobs on vulnerable people But civil is connected to a larger and real gig economy company called on call Which describes itself as an app that provides on-demand tasks services to non-urban communities Beyond main city areas on call is the developer behind other more believable task rabbit-esque apps like lawn fixer clean quick and Move quick given the fact that civil is advertising all over the country and that on call though not popular does exist It seems as though civil actually is an attempt to simplify the process of evicting people who cannot pay their rent During a pandemic now had this article not included that paragraph Saying I know this seems satirical, but it's real. We've looked into it I probably wouldn't be talking about this because me just like seeing this headline I thought now there's no way it's either clickbait or you know, they're being duped by some sort of Hokes or like I don't know some I don't know like it. This can't be real. That was my takeaway. There's no way This is real. I mean even for our late-stage capitalist economy There's there's no way that a company would stoop this low, right? It has to be fake It's real What do you even? Say to that Do I think people would go for this if they were desperate enough and they knew about this and this could be a lucrative opportunity for them? I mean look if it comes down to it and You have to choose between making sure that there's a roof over your head versus someone else You know, you're going to look out for number one You're gonna look out for your family and if that means, you know, you're gonna have to evict other people I'm sure a lot of people May opt for that as an option because they're desperate when you get desperate you resort to really crazy things, right? so This company is pitting the working-class against each other and They're profiting off of it Something like this in our late-stage capitalist society Is even shocking to people like me who talk frequently about the depravity of our late-stage culture late-stage capitalist culture Like you think that there's some limit, right? But there's not a limit like in the events. We started to literally see the apocalypse Come about if we're not already there There's going to be some way that capitalists will try to make money off of it If there's an asteroid headed our way You know, they're gonna sell lifeboats to rich people If you know There's a revolution in the streets There's going to be security firms that sell protection to people like there's going to be some attempt to make money So long as we live in this late-stage capitalist society It's just it's morally depraved. It's Disturbing But I mean this is what we've come to expect like we are a country that hasn't done Jack-fucking-shit for people during an economic depression and a pandemic we gave people a one-time payment of $1,200 and that's it. Does anyone even think that there's going to be another stimulus check? before this election Before the end of the year We've done nothing. We've responded to COVID-19 and the economic depression that resulted because of said pandemic In a way that we'd expect a failed state to respond like our government just isn't functioning Normal governments won't just sit idly by as almost 40 million Americans Could be evicted come January 1st like this isn't a normal response It's not healthy for a developed country with the most money in the world to just let people suffer and Then you see things like this happen So now the gig economy which wouldn't even be a thing if people weren't already desperate in the first place is now going to Pit working-class people against each other by you know getting them to evict one another and make money off of that to survive It's like a dog eat dog world in you know the most Literal sense where you know you literally Have to harm your fellow working-class citizens in order to survive. That's that's where we're at And I don't know how many people are going to go for this, but It's fucking disgusting. I don't know Like I don't really have the words I'm still shocked that this is a thing and there's a part of me that's still hoping that This is satire and we're all being duped, but is it really that unbelievable? In a late-stage capitalist society No, unfortunately, no