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those working at our contemporary frontiers have yet to find a fully coherent political expression that generalises their own experiences into the promise of greater freedom for everyone, and so far these visions offer little to manual workers or care workers, whose bargaining power is so much less.

To admit this is to admit the limits of state power and its legitimacy. Better to marginalize activists—to portray them as rabble on the fringe who are dangerous the way violent criminals are dangerous. Thus is the true danger to the status quo made into another “safe fear.” Thus are both the power and the legitimacy of the margins denied. Denied b

Fourth, this artificially expanded opportunity will favor general bigness and concentration in finance itself.

In the neoliberal workplace, where understaffing makes speedups the order of the day, and where precarity generates high levels of insecurity and anxiety, AL is more conducive to tensions and conflicts than to the discovery of commonalities.

design of systems with strong anonymization and decentralization features that received broad acceptance.

Yet they have largely been unmatched by the emergence of appropriate labor market institutions (such as unions and labor regulations) that allow workers to share the potential benefits of these arrangements. Thus, they have tended to raise workplace precarity and contribute to the “hollowing-out” of the middle class in many developed countries[7].

Times of transformation require ever greater scrutiny of what kind of government is relevant to communities so essentially redefining themselves.

Weakening the soft authority of communities in favor of the hard power of states is likely both to weaken welfare and to diminish liberty.