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Uber, Tesla and Chipotle are often cited as examples of "post-capitalistic" companies. Are they? I don't think I've ever heard that! Uber is almost one of the
by matthewmacleod 11y ago
Uber, Tesla and Chipotle are often cited as examples of "post-capitalistic" companies.
Are they? I don't think I've ever heard that! Uber is almost one of the most traditionally capitalist organisations possible!
- pjc50 11y agoIt doesn't really deploy capital in the traditional sense though - it doesn't own its fleet of cars but rather rents them on an adhoc basis. It's very ... neoliberal? Post-Coasian?
- vertex-four 11y agoUber is just as capitalist as any other company which requires its workers to buy their own tools (which is rather a lot of them). The trick is that those tools don't actually allow you to perform the work in and of themselves - you still need Uber for a steady source of passengers and for regulatory protection, and the only way you'll get that is wage labour.
- davedx 11y agoI think that's what's commonly referred to as the sharing economy.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoUber's "means of production" are its data infrastructure, not its fleet of cars. In old fashioned industrial revolution terms the infrastructure is the loom, the driver network is the cloth it produces.