The platform economy as it is currently constituted—highly centralized, highly mediated, with critical decisions made by a select few—risks replicating the same problems that have led to widespread burnout, financial precarity, and erosion of workers’ rights in the traditional economy.

Tech’s Yin and YangThat there are two philosophies does not necessarily mean that one is right and one is wrong: the reality is we need both. Some problems are best solved by human ingenuity, enabled by the likes of Microsoft and Apple; others by collective action. That, though, gets at why Google and Facebook are fundamentally more dangerous: coll... See more

And if you make a successful alternative App Store, and get, say, 100m people in the EU to install it, you'll owe Apple €50m/year as a "Core Technology Fee". NO GATEKEEPING HERE, EU! None at all! Full compliance, totally. Pinky promise!!