Re:'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom
by bbddg on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:07AM
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I think you need a citation for that last point. This is the exact logic that got us the 2008 crash.
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Re:'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom
by Agebor on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:16AM
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Perhaps, but also most of technological progress in recent centuries. It's a shame humans have a bias for negativity.
Re:'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom
by bbddg on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:29AM
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Certainly lots of technological progress has been made through exploitation but as we see automation taking more and more jobs, maybe we can end that cycle.
This is how progress in society is made. See a problem in the world and try to make it better. I don't think we need to have people working such degrading jobs to have technological progress, but you need it to have this many billionaires running around.