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Get ready for gig work
Our constant potential connectivity to our work means that all moments of our lives are potentially time for work. Those who work in the gig economy are asked to be their own bosses, even while feeling the pressures of the algorithm to get to work. Our social media profiles are reflections of our most optimised selves, curated to project an image o
... See morefrom The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play by Alec Stubbs
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- In this new future of work, jobs will be more transient and dynamic — switching costs between jobs will be lower, opportunities will be more visible, work will be reduced down into more atomic units, and the entire world will be unified under a single workforce with access to all opportunities. We will discover new opportunities based on our on-cha... See more
from The Future of Work Is Not Corporate — It's DAOs and Crypto Networks | Future by future.a16z.com
- Despite real differences in their jobs, both gig workers and content creators are reckoning with the fact that their livelihoods depend on the actions and algorithms of platforms that they have little to no ability to sway.
from A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy by Scott Kominers
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