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[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If most people performed their labor via a system akin to Uber or Doordash, then I'd be more inclined to agree.

IIRC he started this line of inquiry ~5 years ago when "Gigification of the Economy" was a point of discourse going around and I think in that context it would have been reasonable to go there, but otherwise I agree there's hairs to be split about the specific social relations and relations to production that make it hard to view it as regression as you noted.

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