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While creative destruction is viable economically, the experience of it is too disorienting politically to allow capitalism to survive long-term.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
shift into product platforms
Nick Srnicek • Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
I can’t give the founders too much credit because it’s turning out that they did not build something new (they just built Writer Twitter, which already existed on Twitter), but I agree with the sentiment. It’s also how Táíwò bookends Elite Capture . Building something new would be “a worldmaking project, aimed at building and rebuilding actual stru... See more
Cydney Hayes • The Elite Capture of Substack
NilayPatel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great
theverge.comThe neoliberal reforms we have witnessed over the past decades are no doubt pernicious. The downfall of the welfare state, however, is due not only to neoliberal ideology but also to the general reliance on the generation of capital wealth, which makes the welfare state hostage to economic crises.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
“we have entered a different phase for the economy, a new era where production matters less and what matters more is access to that production: distribution, in other words—who gets what and how they get it”[282]. In this context, there
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
Gig economy platforms’ lock-in isn’t predicated on controlling physical capital or manufacturing equipment. Instead, their capital is data that they gather and control—locations of every network participant, the record of all events and interactions, reputation and feedback scores, and market-clearing prices—all of which strengthens their network e... See more