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The term sharecropper has two meanings. The first one is the modern day practice. "He's a sharecropper because he uses share cropping in his business" refers t
by noahc 15y ago
The term sharecropper has two meanings.
The first one is the modern day practice. "He's a sharecropper because he uses share cropping in his business" refers to the modern day agricultural practice. Whatever economic system they use is irrelevant.
In almost all other cases, particularly in regards to Technology, it refers to the old school practice of share cropping and is using it as such.
Present day usage has nothing to do with it. It is all about context. If 80% of HN agree that sharecropper means X, then it means X. Sharecropper in this sense has become a piece of jargon among business and technology folks.
- kragen 15y agoThe old-school practice is the same as the modern-day practice: the landlord rented his land to tenant farmers in exchange for a share of their crop. randomdata's statement: > In farming, sharecropping is the low risk way to grow your business. It is the landlord that takes on much of the burden if the crop fails. But with small risk comes small reward. is just as true of sharecropping in 1911 as of sharecropping in 2011. The difference he draws between sharecropping on a farm and sharecropping on a web site doesn't make sense, though.