very interesting Rob - will have a good look at this thanks, dave
On 19 August 2010 10:18, Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
