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Slums as a Service

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Pein, C. (2018). Slums as a Service. In Pein, C. Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley. Henry Holt & Company, pp. 43-67

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[...] As tech companies established their dominance over the city, more and more mundane aspects of life came to resemble Web-style terms-of-service agreements—unfair, unenforceable, vaguely threatening, and totally rigged. There were even apps for homeless panhandlers to collect Bitcoin, but more popular was an app developed to help the propertied classes report the unwelcome poor to the city’s nuisance hotline.

—p.54 by Corey Pein 6 years ago

[...] As tech companies established their dominance over the city, more and more mundane aspects of life came to resemble Web-style terms-of-service agreements—unfair, unenforceable, vaguely threatening, and totally rigged. There were even apps for homeless panhandlers to collect Bitcoin, but more popular was an app developed to help the propertied classes report the unwelcome poor to the city’s nuisance hotline.

—p.54 by Corey Pein 6 years ago