On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology.

Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself.

  • How should the gig economy work and how does it actually work?
  • Is any worker in this economy a 'true believer'?
  • Why isn't digital sophistication a proof of economic efficiency?
  • What's the relationship between secular stagnation, value capture, and rentierism?
  • Do workers hold to a latent moral economy that could provide the basis for revolt?

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Readings:

  • Muskism and the Myth of Productive Revolution, Will Charles
  • Post-Legitimate Society, Will Charles & Ryan Gunderson
  • Muskism Is the Specter Stalking Our Present, Alex Hochuli, Jacobin

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  • /547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley

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