Hyperscale surveillance capitalists barely depend on society for employees

Evidence

Not all hyperscale firms are surveillance capitalists, however, and our focus here is restricted to the convergence of these two domains. The surveillance capitalists that operate at hyperscale or outsource to hyperscale operations dramatically diminish any reliance on their societies as sources of employees, and the few for whom they do compete, as we have seen, are drawn from the most-rarefied strata of data science. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1593

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Surveillance capitalists know too much to qualify for freedom — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1585; Surveillance capitalism formally abandons capitalism’s historic reciprocity with workers and consumers. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1586; Surveillance capitalist firms operate on a hyperscale pattern with tiny workforces. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1588 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power #responds-to (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 45
• Surveillance capitalism functions as a profoundly antidemocratic social force #responds-to (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1643