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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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calls for privacy archive/dissertation archive/mc433

[...] 'once we understand this [tendency], it becomes clear that demanding privacy from surveillance capitalists or lobbying for an end to commercial surveillance on the Internet is like asking Henry Ford to make each Model T by hand'. Calls for privacy miss how the suppression of privacy is at the…

—p.101 Platform Capitalism Great Platform Wars (93) by Nick Srnicek
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capitalist investment is not suficient to overturn monopolies archive/dissertation

[...] The challenge today, however, is that capitalist investment is not suficient to overturn monopolies; access to data, network effects, and path dependency place even higher hurdles in the way of overcoming a monopoly like Google. This does not mean the end of competition or of the struggle for…

—p.97 Great Platform Wars (93) by Nick Srnicek
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the fever pitch of VC funding archive/dissertation

[...] Where is the money coming from? Broadly speaking, it is surplus capital seeking higher rates of return in a low interest rate environment. The low interest rates have depressed the returns on traditional financial investments, forcing investors to seek out new avenues for yield. Rather than a…

—p.86 Platform Capitalism (36) by Nick Srnicek
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the gig economy archive/dissertation

[...] the traditional labour market that most closely approximates the lean platform model is an old and low-tech one: the market of day labourers--agricultural workers, dock workers, or other low-wage workers--who would show up at a site in the morning in the hope of finding a job for the day. [..…

—p.78 Platform Capitalism (36) by Nick Srnicek