platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact.

alternatives forms of control via reputation systems,

the yen and the mark were devalued over fears of Japanese collapse.

collective cooperation and knowledge become a source of value.

The bust was staved off through a series of rapid interest rate reductions made by the US Federal Reserve; and these reductions marked the beginning of a lengthy period of ultra-easy monetary policy.

their profitability appears to be generated solely by the removal of costs and the lowering of wages and not by anything substantial.

dollar was devalued in the Plaza Accord (1985);

new class, which does not own the means of production but rather has ownership over information.

which often transmit the gendered and racist biases of society.