Gig economy companies were not true pioneers. The truth behind their dominance is their aggressive market takeovers, aided by their precarious labor model. The piece wage’s effect is to induce workers to toil longer and harder for less.
The problem isn’t just that these companies are too big for meaningful competition.
The plot sickens on America's favorite dystopian soap opera - POTUS-dammerung
The five and a half hour long hearing on Capitol Hill offered a stunning illustration of the extent of misdeeds by big tech
It's no Marxist critique of class power--would that it were--but Matt Stoller's Goliath, aimed at moving the Democratic Party off dead center, slams all the right enemies in urging the resuscitating of the anti-monopoly tradition of the 20th century
Facebook * WBAI * China's Spy Media * Splinter's Demise * BBC * Alexa and Google Home * Media Monopoly
Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering.
Workers who make iPhones in the 21st century are twenty-five times more exploited than textile workers in England in the 19th century.
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