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The 'Sharing' Hype - In These Times - 1 views

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shared by purplekimchi on 27 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • purplekimchi on 27 Jan 14
     
    David Golumbia provides a voice to counter the hype of the sharing economy. My favorite quote, "Sharing" can be seen as a form of resistance to the capitalist economy. But the "sharing economy" becomes a way of capitalizing on that resistance" (par 13)
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Unintended - and Anti-Social - Consequences of Social Media Use - 0 views

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shared by purplekimchi on 06 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Simultaneously, though, we must understand that Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other profit-driven companies are not neutral platforms for these conversations.
  • tech industrialists are the Rockefellers of this century, with profit, not innovation or the social good, as their primary motive
  • The lobby group FWD.us, brought to us by founders and investors of Facebook, LinkedIn and Spotify, among others, famously supported the Keystone XL oil pipeline with millions in pro-pipeline advertising
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  • Peers.org, an initiative launched by "sharing economy" companies like the home-subletting site Airbnb, have resisted government regulation, even as disability advocates fear services like the "rideshare" service Uber are increasing inequality between people with and without disabilities
  • they're doing everything they can to avoid paying taxes
  • gentrification
  • San Francisco has lost at least 40 percent of its black population since 1990, more than any other major city
  • But the fact is tech companies continue the practices of devaluation of racialized and feminized labor on a global scale
  • There are no easy answers
  • Another answer is for tech workers to, in tech lingo, disrupt the industry's exploitation by developing alternative tools for connecting us all. Firefox, LibreOffice, PirateBay, Wikipedia and WordPress are all widely used technology-based tools created by organizations that don't count profit as their foremost objective.
  • More important, we can organize with and support the media and activists that already are doing this work, like the Bay Area's POOR Magazine
  • purplekimchi on 06 Mar 14
     
    A more nuanced approach to the social media is anti-social argument
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On the Wrong Side of Globalization - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by purplekimchi on 21 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • There is a real risk that it will benefit the wealthiest sliver of the American and global elite at the expense of everyone else
  • testament to how deeply inequality reverberates through our economic policies
  • But there would be some big losers — namely, the rest of us.
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  • One of the worst is that it allows corporations to seek restitution in an international tribunal, not only for unjust expropriation, but also for alleged diminution of their potential profits as a result of regulation. This is not a theoretical problem. Philip Morris has already tried this tactic against Uruguay, claiming that its antismoking regulations, which have won accolades from the World Health Organization, unfairly hurt profits, violating a bilateral trade treaty between Switzerland and Uruguay.
  • There is already some evidence that companies are choosing how to funnel their money into different countries on the basis of where their legal position in relation to the government is strongest
  • But the TPP would make the introduction of generic drugs more difficult, and thus raise the price of medicines.
  • Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations — as the TPP would — will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.
  • purplekimchi on 21 Mar 14
     
    Seriously, the TPP is as bad as the deals we read about in Drahos and Braithwaite.
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