Brett Scott about the "sharing" #economy:
"When detached from a community foundation, markets can bring out people’s most anxious, petty, arrogant, and narcissistic sides [...]"
"If we are going to turn ourselves into a sprawling network of micro-entrepreneurs, micro-contracting via a feudalistic platform, let’s at least cooperatively own the platform."
https://howwegettonext.com/reversing-the-lies-of-the-sharing-economy-a85501d14be8
@Euphoria Yes, I think "sharing economy" is really kind of a misnomer for businesses like this. The author I cited above makes this point, and others agree, see e. g.: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/sharing-economy-airbnb-uber-yada/484505/
"Platform economy" might be more accurate. Some people use the term "platform capitalism", too.
@Euphoria I guess some people like or share social media posts without even clicking the links in them, or they post comments without reading the material.
On Mastodon, however, many people seem to really read the articles/publications.
@stefanieschulte I wish I could say that I never share something I haven't read in entirely, but it wouldn't be true. I try to remember to /say/ that I haven't read it if I haven't, i.e., "Putting this here so I'll remember to read it later" or "when I have a better connection", as I have issues with pages loading due to my connection sometimes. It can be especially difficult on Twitter, with such strict character limitations. Thank goodness I've got Mastodon now!
I post often urls for future reading and here on Mastodon I'm using Toki Pona hashtags to be able to find them back...
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Did you intentionally spell your hashtag #CharcterLimit ?
I did a partial tokiponization on the name Mastodon and I keep using it #Matodon because it's unique in that way ...
Toki Pona is a minimalist conlang (constructed language) with only 14 letters / sounds
[a, e, i, o, u ; j, k, l, m, n, p, s, t, w]
no diphthongs, no double consonants, nor consonant clusters
with only 123 words
no morphology: no declinations nor conjugations, nor plurals, nor adverb formation
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Online, the Toki Pona course of jan Pije Bryant Knight] is the most widely followed
Stefanie Schulte
:two_hearts:Euphoria
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