Capital was reproduced by unwaged labour for the first time in history

Evidence

For the first time in history, capital has been (re)produced by unwaged labourers. Cloud capital’s platforms make it easy for work to move out of the labour market into an economy that is disguised with the paraphernalia of gaming, chance and lotteries when, in reality, it is all about mechanical, repetitive, Fordist work. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 861

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: the gig-economy gamification of work as a new historical stage where labour escapes the wage form entirely.
• XREF: Connects to Marx’s reproduction schemas — unwaged reproduction of capital reverses the classical dependency of capital on exploitable waged labour. — connects to: Domestic labor is unwaged exploitation essential to reproducing capital — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 123; Capital expands by not paying workers for part of their labor — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 104; Post-emancipation states revived compulsory labor to feed capitalist economies — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 749
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 861

Broader Connections

• Domestic labor is unwaged exploitation essential to reproducing capital #corroborates (1.00) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 123
• Capital expands by not paying workers for part of their labor #expands (1.00) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 104
• Post-emancipation states revived compulsory labor to feed capitalist economies #complicates (1.00) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 749