Neoliberalism is alive and well and living in the cloud. http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/thousands-of-workers-are-stand.html
"What labor on demand means to us is that you can access tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of people instantly. Truly instantly. You send us a job and we post it online through all of our different channels, and we get lots of people working on your job all at once. Or, we find the specific person that's best for your job. It's exciting for businesses because they can scale up and scale down. Just as cloud computing made it so businesses didn't have to predict how many servers they were going to need at any given time, labor on demand allows businesses to not have to predict how many people they're going to need at any given minute. [...] Look, I believe in minimum wage. I think people should have to pay a certain minimum amount of money. Employers shouldn't be able to exploit people. Overall, the amount of work out there is increasing. There are certainly tons of examples of people that are hurt by this, but I think it's a rising tide. This will actually increase the GDP of the world." _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
