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Scoop.it!
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Scoop.it!
“The on-demand world isn’t about sharing at all. It’s about being served. This is an economy of shut-ins“.
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Scoop.it!
Excerpted from Umair Haque: “Money’s pouring into the tech industry today. Too much money, chasing too few truly groundbreaking investments. And so a bubble is inflating?—?but not just any bubble. A bubble of an especially insidious kind. Of stuff that’s beyond eyewateringly, painfully, mind-numbingly trivial. I’m going to call it a Servitude Bubble. For the …
Scoop.it!
“There are only two requirements for an on-demand service economy to work, and neither is an iPhone. First, the market being addressed needs to be big enough to scale—food, laundry, taxi rides. Without that, it’s just a concierge service for the rich rather than a disruptive paradigm shift, as a venture capitalist might say. Second, and perhaps more importantly, there needs to be a large enough labor class willing to work at wages that customers consider affordable and that the middlemen consider worthwhile for their profit margins.
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under Commons, Culture & Ideas, Integral Theory, Original Content, P2P Collaboration, P2P Epistemology, P2P Hierarchy Theory, P2P Theory, Politics, Sharing. Y