Discovery is a fascinating topic that is extremely difficult to nail in any industry. Countless failed start-ups attempted to enable Discovery in the Travel industry. Shopify has tried 4 times to step in the Discovery business with no success. Discovery in Communities and the Passion Economy makes no exception.
Services marketplaces will eventually provide education and additional resources to help their workers “level up” to higher pay rates — perhaps in exchange for some sort of temporal exclusivity. The trade school of the future, in fact, may not be a school at all. It could be a labor marketplace with embedded education.
We are confused, or maybe divided is a better word, as to whether they are national champions in competition over the spaces that will define the rest of the 21st century or whether they are villains that are threatening consumers’ privacy, rational dialogue and civility, and our public culture