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I thought his point was that Sprig promotes a more "megacorp" future where if you enjoy cooking and want to do it for a living you must work for Sprig or a simi
by jacinda 11y ago
I thought his point was that Sprig promotes a more "megacorp" future where if you enjoy cooking and want to do it for a living you must work for Sprig or a similar megacorp as an employee, with little agency in your cooking or career.
On the other hand, he thinks Josephine's model promotes a future where telecommunications helps connect people who are more akin to small-business owners than employees with customers. These people then have more agency in their cooking (in addition to the human connection with customers).
I personally think that eventually AIs will be able to master cooking as well so we won't have human cooks involved at all except as a fashion statement.
- AJ007 11y agoThis is very relevant http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/31/436377616/the-restaurant-with-no-visible-workers http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/08/31/436... I have been starting to think, what if in the future we have all of these platforms - like Uber - and the just suck? Honestly the mediocre UberX drivers now are considerably worse than the average cab driver (city specific.) Some combination of IP law and marketplace-platform dominance may enable fairly mediocre exchange platforms to exist at scale for a really long time and be difficult for anyone to disrupt. Craigslist, eBay, aren't that great and in some cases are downright horrible, but once all of the buyers congregate there, its hard for innovation to exist in either the classifieds or auction space. What if IP law, patents, trademarks, made it really hard to even offer specific types of services? Contrarian thinking, and quite negative, but seeing Uber go from incredible and high quality to fair made me realize that maybe at scale some of this stuff won't be as joyful.
- hobs 11y agoI think you are very likely close to the mark, and that is because the switching cost for these types of services (due to networking effects) means that the shoddy but working service will last a LONG time.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoWe may get a wild west of crappy deregulated services, and then through many decades of blood and tears we'll regulate them back into order. We've done that once, little over a century ago.
- manigandham 11y agoFor most services, quality and scale are tend to be two ends of the same (fuzzy) spectrum. It's very hard to achieve both.