Glamour of cool jobs acts as nonmonetary compensation for workers

Evidence

Neff points out that part of the symbolic capital for workers in such industries is the glamour of working in a “cool” job in a “hot” field, which becomes a form of nonmonetary compensation typical to commons-based peer production. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 143

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with how social media status itself functions as currency, a central mechanism of the book’s argument about attention economies. — connects to: Workers compensated for meaningless rationalized jobs with glittering distractions instead of class consciousness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 469; Wages compensate time but not enthusiasm workers contribute freely — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 65; Free products, not wages, often constitute influencer compensation (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Workers compensated for meaningless rationalized jobs with glittering distractions instead of class consciousness #expands (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 469
• Platforms extract free work while paying recognition and perks instead of wages #exemplifies (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 215
• Free products, not wages, often constitute influencer compensation #exemplifies (0.80)
• Influencer compensation commonly takes the form of comped goods rather than wages #exemplifies (0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 15
• Wages compensate time but not enthusiasm workers contribute freely #complicates (0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 65
• Wages buy time and skills but not the enthusiasm that generates real value #complicates (0.75) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 65