In other words, there’s a libertarian, antiregulatory mood that has become the default culture of the techie class. We are on the cutting edge, inventing all kinds of cool stuff; they are the dinosaurs trying to enforce brain-dead rules to hem us in.…
What we’re finding out—and this is the main lesson of Leap—is that techie libertarianism is not only shallow politics, it can be lethal for business in a justifiably regulated world. Grow up.
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The Real Lesson of Leap (and VW and maybe Uber): Libertarian Tech Hubris
Peter Dorman | Professor of Political Economy, The Evergreen State College
The Real Lesson of Leap (and VW and maybe Uber): Libertarian Tech Hubris
Peter Dorman | Professor of Political Economy, The Evergreen State College
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Because they fancy themselves to be disrupt-ivators that are "changing the world" think they have carte-blanche to disregard rules and laws that they find inconvenient. Then when they get caught, they think they shouldn't have to pay for their crimes financially, lose their licenses to do business, or with criminal or civil prosecution. We are a white-collar society now. We need vigorous white-collar crime enforcement and fewer jack-booted thugs with an IQ of 50 rolling around in police cruisers with guns and hand-cuffs. Law enforcement needs to change.
It runs the gambit too. From early solar panels installations that don't follow national electric code, cabs that don't follow transportation and labor code, the tax evading search/software guys, the Apple-Microsoft types that break laws until you are looking and shine light on their operations, the Whole Foods "better way" mislabeling ingredients to sound healthy, mis-weighing, mis-reprenting health claims. Cloud computing that thinks that no laws should apply since they store data in multiple countries at once. These are all old street level scams that are well prosecuted unless your company is in California and calls itself tech.
It is completely out of control and in need of strong governance. The problem is the current government is on the payroll of the tech industry.
Yes, but you see that's still the government's fault. If All Gore hadn't have invented the internet none of this would have happened :b
Completely agreed with Ryan.
Because no one will do anything we should all break the law until the system is so dysfunctional that it collapses.
Sick of this myopic society.
It is much worse than that... All that this "free agent", "human cloud" business model amounts to is just a marketing rebranding for "piecework" in the factory and even of "putting out" (cottage labour), a pre-industrial practice of great duration.
As a very good business book pointed out piecework used to be very popular with british management because it avoided them having to deal with labour and shopfloor management issues, leaving work organization to the cheap disposable "human cloud" of labourers.
But this responsibility avoidance even *within one's own business*, without any outsourcing and offshoring, drives bad work practices and bad productivity, as coordination is essential for productivity and even more so for consistent and high quality.
To the point that Adam Smith was arguing like others in his time that the government ought to drive cottage labour to bankruptcy with high taxes and other troubles, in order to push cottage labourers into factories where they could be squeezed much harder, and organized from above more productively.
Completely agreed with Ryan.
Because no one will do anything we should all break the law until the system is so dysfunctional that it collapses.
This is what happens when the top rots. The rest figure, why should I be the chump.
Provocative comment, Ryan. Lotta' food for thought.
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