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Worse Than Capitalism

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Wark, M. (2017). Worse Than Capitalism. In Schneider, N. and Scholz, T. (eds) Ours to Hack and to Own. OR Books, pp. 43-47

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[...] the big companies no longer actually make their products. That can be contracted out to a competing mass of capitalist suppliers. What the vectoralist firm owns and controls is brands, patents, copyrights, and trademarks, or it controls the networks, clouds, and infrastructures, along which such information might move.

The rise of the so-called sharing economy is really just a logical extension of this contracting out of actual material services and labor by firms that control unequal flow of information. [...]

—p.45 by McKenzie Wark 6 years, 2 months ago

[...] the big companies no longer actually make their products. That can be contracted out to a competing mass of capitalist suppliers. What the vectoralist firm owns and controls is brands, patents, copyrights, and trademarks, or it controls the networks, clouds, and infrastructures, along which such information might move.

The rise of the so-called sharing economy is really just a logical extension of this contracting out of actual material services and labor by firms that control unequal flow of information. [...]

—p.45 by McKenzie Wark 6 years, 2 months ago