Since I responded to Professor Roclin's blog post earlier, I came
across this article when I was doing my morning news ritual:
Does Silicon Valley Have a Contract-Worker Problem?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/silicon-valleys-contract-worker-problem.html
It is even worse than I imagined. Until now -- I guess I am somewhat
late to the game -- I had never heard of the "1099 economy."
Pretty fu*king scary. What are we doing to ourselves?
In addition, the other day, I came across a write up on Naomi Klein's
new book, "This Changes Everything."
Naomi Klein on the Great Clash Between Capitalism and the Climate
http://www.alternet.org/books/naomi-klein-great-clash-between-capitalism-and-climate
Can't wait to get my hands on it and I trust it will be as revealing
as "The Shock Doctrine" was.
Maybe at some point, we will get some influencers, besides the folks
on this list, who are in positions of power that will start
advocating for new p2p business models that are less exploitive.
But first we have to take on Wall Street. And I quote:
"She sees her new book as the natural successor to The Shock Doctrine
as she deepens her critique and insists we need to fundamentally
rethink our approach to climate. The inconvenient truth about global
warming is that it isn't really about carbon, but rather capitalism.
Our economic model is waging war on the earth, and unless capitalism
is dramatically changed, we are doomed."
Hear, hear.
/j
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