Cheap gig services today may create exploited providers tomorrow

Evidence

The buyers of gig services today may enjoy lower costs, but if more and more of them are forced to become the providers of gig services tomorrow, then the “disruption” that the sharing economy is creating is clearly negative over the longer term. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 226

Categorization

• SEED: Offerers-today-become-providers-tomorrow inversion is an angle for a piece on why ‘disruption’ benefits are systematically self-cancelling.
• XREF: connects to: Gig platforms will collapse or become luxury services when venture funding dries up — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 96

Broader Connections

• Gig platforms will collapse or become luxury services when venture funding dries up #complicates (0.75) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 96