- Mar 2024
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thebaffler.com thebaffler.com
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By insisting the issue with Uber was largely cultural, Swisher ends up affirming the myth that Uber was not only an inevitable but ultimately good innovation, a few bad apples notwithstanding.
Perhaps without the toxic capitalism portion Uber may have been a great innovation? Maybe it would have been better as a co-op, community, or government supported organization which put the value into both drivers' and riders' pockets?
Naturally the crazy hype which generated the VC money would have been needed to be replaced, so the question becomes: who would have funded the start up?
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- Mar 2021
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pluralistic.net pluralistic.net
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A news co-op is a news organization owned by its readers, whose membership fees pay for open access journalism – no paywall – usually organized as nonprofits (an IRS rule-change lets for-profit newspaper convert to nonprofits).
I'm sort of wishing that we could also have social media co-ops. I suspect that there are a few on Mastodon that operate like this, but it would be interesting to see some focused around in-person communities as well.
Why couldn't my local library run a town/city-based social media co-op?
For this matter, why couldn't my local news co-op also run it's own social media platform?
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- Sep 2019
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www.techworker.coop www.techworker.coop