On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology.
Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself.
How should the gig economy work and how does it actually work?
Is any worker in this economy a 'true believer'?
Why isn't digital sophistication a proof of economic efficiency?
What's the relationship between secular stagnation, value capture, and rentierism?
Do workers hold to a latent moral economy that could provide the basis for revolt?
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Readings:
Muskism and the Myth of Productive Revolution, Will Charles
Post-Legitimate Society, Will Charles & Ryan Gunderson
Muskism Is the Specter Stalking Our Present, Alex Hochuli, Jacobin
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