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regulating tech platforms like automobiles

[...] The task of improving safety could not be left to industry, as market incentives mitigated against such an investment. “A democratic government is far better equipped to resolve competing interests and determine whatever is required [to improve safer transport] than are firms whose all-absorb…

—p.16 The Baffler: The Contract State (#47) Invisible Handcuffs (12) by Lizzie O'Shea
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formalized exploitation of our digital lives for profit

Until relatively recently, the regulation of technology was largely discussed through the prism of contract. Technology is often sold or accessed as a proprietary product, licenced through contract to the user. Clickwrap terms of service on major service platforms, for example, allow companies to o…

—p.15 Invisible Handcuffs (12) by Lizzie O'Shea
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resiling

Amazon is on the defensive, resiling from some of its most aggressive marketing tactics and voluntarily raising the minimum wage for its workers

how tf did i not know this word

—p.13 Invisible Handcuffs (12) by Lizzie O'Shea
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a prosperity gospel of discipline and attentiveness

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, as the financial industry underwent deregulation, and as consumer protections from credit card companies, banks, and short-term lenders were stripped away, the idea of personal financial responsibility as a coping mechanism took hold. Everyone was trying to fleece yo…

—p.8 Revolution on the Installment Plan (6) by Jessa Crispin
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rictus

The yield curve forms half a rictus

—p.3 Terms of Nervous (3) by Jonathon Sturgeon
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