Billions of dollars are extracted every year from the people who do the actual work.
For every dollar a customer spends on services (a ride, a repair, a delivery), the driver, the plumber, the electrician takes home thirty cents. The rest goes to platforms, aggregators, and the algorithms that sit between them.
Free markets are supposed to reward the people who do the work, not be the toll booth.
Technology is never neutral. It takes on the character of whoever builds it, finances it, and governs it. The platforms were built for growth. The algorithms were built for margin. The workers were never part of the design.
AI4Good Foundation exists to change who builds, who finances, and who governs.
We build open infrastructure. Open rails that no aggregator can own, no platform can toll, no algorithm can capture.
We are not a charity. We are not anti-technology. We are anti-extraction.
The platform extraction problem is not unique to home services. It runs through music, transportation, agriculture, eldercare, and education. Same structure. Every industry. Every city.
We started with the trades because the math is undeniable.
We will not stop there.