Digital-era protest inverts the cost-benefit logic of nineteenth-century collective action.

Evidence

The beauty of cloud mobilisation is that it stands on its head the conventional calculus of collective action. Instead of maximal personal sacrifice for minimal collective gain, we now have the opposite: minimal personal sacrifice delivering large collective and personal gains. This reversal has the potential to pave the way towards a coalition of cloud serfs and cloud proles that is large enough to disrupt cloudalists’ control over billions of people. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 760

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 760
• XREF: connects to: Mass democratic association historically depended on newspapers to coordinate collective action — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 734; Twentieth-century power equalization resulted from collective action and policy inventions — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface:…, 23