“The End of Employees”
Why business expect to have even fewer employees.
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Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Seven: Uber’s “Narrative” and The Vox and Stratechery Critiques of Naked Capitalism’s Uber Series – Defending Uber Requires Ignoring Industry Economics
More discussion of defenses of Uber and how none of them deal with the economics of providing car ride services.
Read more...Why the Pursuit of Shareholder Value Kills Innovation
Why are public companies not terribly innovative?
Read more...re: F@ck Work?
Why the Job Guarantee versus Universal Basic Income is not about work, but about governance.
Read more...Three Theories Behind the Global Productivity Slowdown
A discussion of mainstream views on productivity growth slippage, plus a pet theory from Yves.
Read more...Gaius Publius: How Police Use Military Technology to Secretly and Persistently Track You
How police are using military technology to spy on you even better.
Read more...“Many Areas of Appalachia and Mississippi Delta Have Lower Life Expectancy Than Bangladesh”
Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Best Buy National Repair Techs Routinely Search Customer Devices, Act as “Paid Informers” for FBI
Best Buy’s repair operations are part of the surveillance state.
Read more...Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State
“Robots are coming for your job” may be more scare talk than reality, but instilling that belief helps weaken labor bargaining power.
Read more...How Taxpayers Subsidize AirBnB’s Cheap Prices
How you lose when AirBnB wins.
Read more...Former Employee Sues Google, Claims It Maintained an Internal Spy Network That Encouraged Workers to Snitch on Each Other
Google looks to have been too clever by half in how far it has gone in trying to silence employees.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Six: Latest Data Confirms Bleak P&L Performance While Stephen Levitt Makes Indefensible Consumer Welfare Claims
More on Uber’s questionable prospects and the dubious defenses offered by boosters, in this case, “Freakonomics” professor Stephen Levitt.
Read more...When a Business You Like Dies
Mourning the death of a favorite business, and what that says about the environment for entrepreneurs.
Read more...Uber’s Woes Mount: California Strips Driverless Cars’ Registration, Losses Rise, VAT Charges Loom
Uber has a bad week.
Read more...Is Technological Progress Behind Growing Income Inequality?
Do elite-serving claims that technological change is a big driver of the rise in inequality hold up to scrutiny?
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