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The Internet should be an empowering force. Companies that use new technologies to disempower ordinary people deserve to fail.
I strongly suspect that some companies see the sharing economy as a way to bypass worker rights. This is very clearly not the case.
@dbounds This kind of activism, & other forms of organization like unions, are a necessary counterbalance to corporate need to reduce costs.
@dbounds Partially because the ability to move is a privilege in itself. There are many reasons why people often can't.
@dbounds I'm saying that it certainly won't happen fast enough and many people have poor quality of life as a result.
@dbounds When the market is gamed by inside connections & other uneven forces, as it inevitably is, social supply & demand breaks down.
@dbounds I'm actually here to be closer to my family. But that aside, supply and demand only works as a mechanism in a fair market.
@dbounds Because that kind of social libertarianism has worked so well in the past? Market forces are not a good way to organize society.
@dbounds Perhaps, but our industry depends on them. We actually need them to not do that.
@dbounds For one thing, more than subsistence wages for the manual workers Silicon Valley depends on.
@heathr it's reduced the number of personal tweets, which I think is fine. Same muscle as Livejournal used to be in a way.