Earlier this week, after drinks with co-workers near The Verge’s New York office, I headed down into the subway for my commute home. The M train, like most New York subways, is often delayed. When the train mysteriously stopped somewhere under the East River, I found myself sitting across from a series of ads for TaskRabbit, a gig platform that lets anyone outsource menial labor to on-demand employees. Moving a couch? Weeding your abandoned garden? Cleaning out your underwear drawer? Even just waiting in a DMV line? There is, seemingly, no task too trivial for a “tasker.”

There is, seemingly, no task too trivial for a “tasker”

The ads plastered up and down the subway car played on a single theme: depicting a series of wonderful…

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