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Distribution Disruption

People vs Algorithms

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The Reality of the Worker's World

"I think from the worker, if I could speak for the workers here a little bit, it's like welcome to our world. We're all Uber drivers for tech platforms," he says. "People are completely justified in fighting for their piece of the pie and that's completely fine." But when you start to measure the pennies per play like Spotify does on their catalog,. then divide them up between people, there's just not enough money there. That's kind of the law of the internet. And it's harsh, right? Just like you want LeBron to make a billion dollars. And then what? He's going to suck a billion dollars out of the ecosystem. Exactly.

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