the writer is clearly a racist bigot , Mr Indi Samarajiva
is from bangladesh who is earning his living from the white evil devils who provide a platform on medium free of charge.
another colourless racist. blaming his shortcomings onto others. clearly uneducated.
Strange article. I couldn't quite pin the sentiment of the author towards servants. It definitely reinforced a thought I've frequently had that I should hire regular help instead of putting out one-time gigs on Uber and Doordash and so on - it profits both me and my hypothetical employee more by dispensing with the middleman.
Another south asian with a fetish for making the worst parts of their culture seem like a norm. No, your uber driver is not the same as a serf sex slave your family can afford to enslave. God damn. What's next, some idiot saying college degrees are just white people with a caste system? Is divorce just white people satisfied? There is something deeply rotten in south Asian culture.
Sex slaves exist in all parts of the world because of sex trafficking, and are not the same as servants.
More importantly, the author seemed to be suggesting that having a servant class is not a good thing for western countries to adopt, so I’m not sure why you think he’s trying to make it seem like a ‘norm’.
The article doesn't begin right but it is pretty reasonable once you reach the last few paragraphs:
"The real disruption would be something that renders the gig economy or servant class empty, because it lifts living standards for so many. Something that creates actual middle class jobs and lifts real family incomes across the board. In the past these have been government infrastructure programs, or opening up to free trade, or allowing more free movement of people. But those policies aren’t sexy and they don’t have an app.
But we shouldn’t mistake gig economy company’s for more than what they are. They deliver convenience, not prosperity. They touch millions of lives, but only in a superficial way.
As it is, however, the gig economy is a symptom of rising inequality, not a solution. For countries that haven’t had servants the difference seems truly revolutionary, but in reality they are just stepping back into the ‘developing’ world, hiding the ugly parts behind a gilded screen"
In a way gig economies are even worse than servants since the worker is squeezed out of productivity in the most efficient manner, dehumanizing them in the process. The benefits however accrue to the customer and the aggregator since the individual gig worker can't really scale.
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 29.0 ms ] threadthe writer is clearly a racist bigot , Mr Indi Samarajiva is from bangladesh who is earning his living from the white evil devils who provide a platform on medium free of charge.
another colourless racist. blaming his shortcomings onto others. clearly uneducated.
poor sense of justice
Also, where is he saying someone is inferior or bad because of the color of their skin?
More importantly, the author seemed to be suggesting that having a servant class is not a good thing for western countries to adopt, so I’m not sure why you think he’s trying to make it seem like a ‘norm’.
"The real disruption would be something that renders the gig economy or servant class empty, because it lifts living standards for so many. Something that creates actual middle class jobs and lifts real family incomes across the board. In the past these have been government infrastructure programs, or opening up to free trade, or allowing more free movement of people. But those policies aren’t sexy and they don’t have an app.
But we shouldn’t mistake gig economy company’s for more than what they are. They deliver convenience, not prosperity. They touch millions of lives, but only in a superficial way.
As it is, however, the gig economy is a symptom of rising inequality, not a solution. For countries that haven’t had servants the difference seems truly revolutionary, but in reality they are just stepping back into the ‘developing’ world, hiding the ugly parts behind a gilded screen"
In a way gig economies are even worse than servants since the worker is squeezed out of productivity in the most efficient manner, dehumanizing them in the process. The benefits however accrue to the customer and the aggregator since the individual gig worker can't really scale.
In countries with less income and wealth equality, only the really rich can afford servants. The rest would turn to machines and automation.
In countries such as Brazil and India, which have high inequality, even the middle class can afford a part time maid.