
Nick Srnicek on Platform Capitalism
Doomscroll with Joshua Citarella
Is the Gig Economy a Different Category Than Platform Capitalism?
There's a class fracture within american capitalists. Different people need say they want to reshore industry. Some want to offshore at different interests. Alongside competition with china, there's going to be a necessary belt tightening among some bloated sectors of the American capitalist class. All if these things drive a re introduction of the state into politics,. shaping markets, playing a larger hand in society. We ased a critical threshold. It was about five years ago, you gave a talk at ours industrialis, and you said something i'm paraphrasing here, that within five years, these platform services will have to transition to luxury services. And here we are, and they've just pretty