On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology.
Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself.
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How should the gig economy work and how does it actually work?
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Is any worker in this economy a 'true believer'?
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Why isn't digital sophistication a proof of economic efficiency?
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What's the relationship between secular stagnation, value capture, and rentierism?
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Do workers hold to a latent moral economy that could provide the basis for revolt?
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