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"An unkind summary, then, of the past half decade of the consumer internet: Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work th
by 3xblah 8y ago
"An unkind summary, then, of the past half decade of the consumer internet: Venture capitalists have subsidized the creation of platforms for low-paying work that deliver on-demand servant services to rich people, while subjecting all parties to increased surveillance."
"Unkind"? How would we make it less "unkind"?
Half-decade?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLackey.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyLackey.com
- eevilspock 8y agoOne day my friends and I were walking in downtown Seattle. Looking up we saw a huge billboard that simply said, "MyLackey.com". What an asinine, tone-deaf, elitist, heartless yet honest name we thought[1]. Later we learned one of the founders was Brian McGarvey, someone we had worked with in a prior startup. His idea was to take Kozmo.com[2] up a notch. It exemplified the dot-com boom, and now Facebook, Uber, and much of Silicon Valley then and today: get rich quick, fuck humanity. --- [1] Much the same way Trump's election is America being honest with itself. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozmo.com