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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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conceals rent-seeking activities

Finally, we should consider the possibility that the true nature of intangible investment has changed. Maybe it conceals rent-seeking activities that superficially look like they increase productivity but actually do nothing of the sort.

—p.111 Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy Intangibles, Investment, Productivity, and Secular Stagnation (91) by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
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scalability and intangible assets archive/dissertation

[...] Google, Microsoft and Facebook need relatively few tangible assets compared to the manufacturing giants of yesteryear. They can scale their intangible-asset bundle or software and reputation and so get very big. This type of scalability is, of course, enhanced by network effects.

—p.67 What's Different about Intangible Investment? The Four S's of Intangibles (58) by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
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sharing economy assets archive/dissertation

[...] A valuable asset of so-called sharing-economy businesses like Uber or AirBnB is typically their network of committed suppliers--Uber's drivers or AirBnB's hosts. This too is an asset of lasting value that both companies have invested heavily to develop (and which they invest to protect, for e…

—p.51 How to Measure Intangible Investment (36) by Jonathan Haskel, Stian Westlake
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the problems with privacy-based critiques archive/dissertation

Privacy-based critiques do not quite capture the element of productive power and control at work in the promise of monitoring-based marketing. If privacy violations constitute an invasion—a loss of control over the process of self-disclosure— market monitoring includes an additional element of cont…

—p.161 Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory Estranged Free Labor (149) by Mark Andrejevic
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extending them into the digital realm archive/dissertation

[...] the privatization and commercialization of much of the digital media infrastructure does not take place by force, but merely reproduces existing property relations by extending them into the digital realm. The background of compulsion is built into the legal structure and regulatory regimes t…

—p.157 Estranged Free Labor (149) by Mark Andrejevic