Falling job quality may be a deliberate competitive strategy, not just a market casualty.

Evidence

Market pressures may trigger deteriorating job quality and democratic dilution, but alternatively, deteriorating job quality may be instrumentalized as a competitive strategy to gain and maintain market share (Dorigatti et al., 2024). — Adrian Josef Amon, Organizing the study of degeneration…, 58

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adrian Josef Amon, Organizing the study of degeneration…, 58
• XREF: connects to: Worsening one’s own outcomes can be strategically advantageous in mixed-motive games. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 358; Job polarization trends stem from political and institutional choices, not technological inevitability — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 572

Broader Connections

• Worsening one’s own outcomes can be strategically advantageous in mixed-motive games. #corroborates (0.80) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 358
• Job polarization trends stem from political and institutional choices, not technological inevitability #expands (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 572