La economía de plataforma: un ecosistema social y políticamente degenerativo del empleo
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2021
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Tirant lo Blanch, Tirant Humanidades
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Gordo, Angel y de Rivera, Javier (2021). La economía de plataforma: un ecosistema social y políticamente degenerativo del empleo. In S. M. Ruesga, J. Baquero Jorge y L. Delgado (eds) Diálogos sobre socieconomía: Informalidad en América Latina (pp. 269-286). Tirant Humanidades.
Abstract
Acompañada de discursos inspiradores, la economía colaborativa alcanzó un trepidante éxito durante los primeros años de la década de 2010. Sus promotores ensalzaban sus virtudes económicas, sociales y medioambientales, sin embargo, su mayor novedad era la posibilidad de mercadear con la vida ociosa de las cosas y los saberes. En menos de una década, estos discursos se han diluido, dando paso a una interpretación más amplia de la economía de plataforma que, de la mano de la economía de low cost y el creciente consumo online, ha fomentado estilos de vida y condiciones de trabajo hasta hace bien poco impensables. Las formas de trabajo que impulsa la economía de plataforma son indicativas de un incremento generalizado de la vulnerabilidad económica y la falta de recursos para conseguir una mínima estabilidad laboral, en fin, la antesala de una reconversión a gran escala, resultado del proceso de maduración del capitalismo digital. Asimismo, la consolidación de su éxito atisba en el horizonte la posibilidad de expandir su lógica de gobierno a los estados bajo el influjo del gran poder de las empresas tecnológicas y su oligopolio. En este texto reparamos en algunos de estos procesos con el propósito de saber qué panorama sociolaboral y político fomentamos cuando, como consumidores y ciudadanos, recurrimos a determinadas iniciativas afines a la economía de plataforma, sus comodidades y diversificación de servicios y consumos.
Accompanied by inspiring speeches, the sharing economy achieved tremendous success in the early 2010s. Its promoters extolled its economic, social and environmental virtues, however, its greatest novelty was the possibility of marketing with the idle life of things and knowledge. In less than a decade, these discourses have diluted, giving way to a broader interpretation of the platform economy that, hand in hand with the low-cost economy and growing online consumption, has fostered lifestyles and working conditions until recently unthinkable. The forms of work promoted by the platform economy are indicative of a generalized increase in economic vulnerability and the lack of resources to achieve a minimum job stability, in short, the prelude to a large-scale reconversion, a result of the maturation process of the digital capitalism. Likewise, the consolidation of its success glimpses on the horizon the possibility of expanding its government logic to the states under the influence of the great power of technology companies and their oligopoly. In this text we look at some of these processes with the purpose of knowing what socio-labor and political panorama we promote when, as consumers and citizens, we resort to certain initiatives related to the platform economy, its amenities and diversification of services and consumption.
Accompanied by inspiring speeches, the sharing economy achieved tremendous success in the early 2010s. Its promoters extolled its economic, social and environmental virtues, however, its greatest novelty was the possibility of marketing with the idle life of things and knowledge. In less than a decade, these discourses have diluted, giving way to a broader interpretation of the platform economy that, hand in hand with the low-cost economy and growing online consumption, has fostered lifestyles and working conditions until recently unthinkable. The forms of work promoted by the platform economy are indicative of a generalized increase in economic vulnerability and the lack of resources to achieve a minimum job stability, in short, the prelude to a large-scale reconversion, a result of the maturation process of the digital capitalism. Likewise, the consolidation of its success glimpses on the horizon the possibility of expanding its government logic to the states under the influence of the great power of technology companies and their oligopoly. In this text we look at some of these processes with the purpose of knowing what socio-labor and political panorama we promote when, as consumers and citizens, we resort to certain initiatives related to the platform economy, its amenities and diversification of services and consumption.