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Home cooking doesn't have a single business entity that aggregates this value though. Reddit would be worth much less without this free labor, as well as most o
by jfim 4y ago
Home cooking doesn't have a single business entity that aggregates this value though. Reddit would be worth much less without this free labor, as well as most other social media companies would without user generated comment.
- OJFord 4y agoIt also isn't a public service which makes it quite different to me at least. A better analogy might be 'soup kitchen' staff, gurdwara kitchen staff (at least I assume they're volunteers?), church choir & bell-ringers, etc.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoHome cooking supports every worker and their children as future labor that aggregates into every business entity. A single business entity is not a requirement for this condition. See the entire underground economy of social reproduction.
- lostlogin 4y agoReddit’s core business is the comments, and moderation is a requirement. Some (many?jurisdictions have laws around what can legally be written, so moderation becomes important. Cooking food isn’t the core business of my employer.
- kelseyfrog 4y agoI mean I guess we can define core business whichever way we want, but if unpaid labor vanished overnight the entire economy would collapse so it actually is fundamentally connected to Reddit whether we like it or not.