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paint. and. i confess names of those who look at me. the secret of mona lisa starts july 3rd d. w. . a drop off in an hour. of algorithms organize my work days and write my performance what does that mean for me digital control when apps tell you how to do your job our topic today on ship. brave new digital workspace normal fixed hours working from the comfort of home and everything you need at your fingertips through your smartphone visualization has already greatly shaped the workforce especially in the service industry nearly half

of the employees worldwide work in this sector in germany they make up 3 quarters what is it like to receive assignments from i phone we asked by career. exercising. receiving job requests by meeting friends and getting paid for the life of the by korea may not be quite as great as companies would like you to think only contract employees have a guaranteed income to. get their assignments through and that ensures and algorithm decides how much they will. only consider performance criteria such as speed position and reliability they don't care about the human being behind. self employed under these conditions of the so called economy they fight for commission . in the working conditions of the digital age.

people who work these gigs don't necessarily decide when and where they do it. instead the platform assigns them certain jobs or doesn't. quite often find themselves at the mercy of the opposite of. as if they were waiting for bread crumbs that the site's algorithm tosses out. constantly waiting for the next job is nerve wracking and emotionally exhausting and germany unions and politicians are raising. new developments in digital technology we're seeing new forms of exploitation and precarity by couriers for example they've gone without any real social safety net for a long time. but i don't want to be a by career so that's not my problem. actually that's a bit shortsighted so-called digital capitalism as broad radical changes to our

working lives and is affecting more and more people according to. the should know he's been working in the i.t. sector for 20 years and has written 2 books on the subject. digital capitalism is a historical phase of capitalism in which algorithms and data take on the role that machines and resources used to play. in this digital capitalism the data corporations that specialize in data extraction dominate the market. these businesses cloak themselves as platforms. in the future experts predict that fewer workers will receive contract position google's already proving them right not even half of the employees are under contract in the gig economy many work in precarious. in theory whenever and wherever they want but even if they're independent on paper they may still be

closely monitored one example amazon's warehouse work is known as pick their work day is determined by digital. warehouse workers in particular are monitored very very closely. that device they carry around with them watches every step they make and gives them a clear instructions on where to go when the literal sense of the term which optimal paths to walk. up to it's reminiscent of the assembly line days people were reduced to performing single simple ideal movements of. digital technology to optimize those workflows must be every employee has dream but they could also use these programs to identify optimal employees and these forms of digital control limited to koori is and warehouse workers algorithmic management

systems as they're called a showing up in other sectors as well software that tells me when it's time for a break to give my back a rest sounds great and if it helps to flatten out hierarchies all the better on the other hand. my rock will fall mines in detail and how does that affect me mr dahl differences aside often the physical boss disappears and is replaced by digital technologies that are invisible to keep a far closer watch these mathematical theorem. these mathematical see in these mathematical theorems about a group of. imagine i had a computer counting how much expensive studio time might cost now that's total digital control what algorithms can count however a social skills to measure those you simply need to ask your employees rating systems in which work is evaluated one another becoming more common place they were inspired by the customer rating systems we used to from most major internet that

phones. my producer brought me a cup of coffee today. again. online fashion retail is the land developed design in the rating system based on coworker feedback in order to digitally track the worst performance of the company's 5000 some employees the union friendly foundation examined this system this study shows that the sensation of total surveillance it creates damage to working environments and yes more and more companies are favoring digital monitoring and lucas with flexible availability under these circumstances can hardly defend their interests. with revealing with the kind of digital early capitalism it isn't new digital factories are popping up there's no regulation so we need a process involving labor struggles and they're already happening. for example google employees are trying to organize in unions they say the company has

been blocking them and some even reports having been sucked. but the company denies this. i actually recognize many developments in this digital platform economy that we know from the history of the workers' movement and as of course the uber drivers today are organized very differently than i think facebook groups and they call wildcat strikes out there a kind of post-modern union movement and i think that's a positive development or is that i definitely welcome it. so there's still hope but many of these checks and balances are already part of labor law at least in germany the large internet corporations are not too happy about them but for tech giants google apple facebook and amazon or operate worldwide and set themselves above national regulation in most countries they can avoid taxes and use the monopoly is to their advantage national data protection

laws a just a nuisance that. and they don't like taking responsibility for what happens on this site they have a watertight defense is they've insisted that just indeed media is all that this neutral market places of course that's not really the case says. special about these platforms is that the ones who set them up are the rulers there they decide the rules and they're also the ones active in these markets they themselves created software. so. for example amazon has provider on the marketplace that it has created worldwide. so it's not just the referee it is the same time it's also a player. there are 2 main reasons why the gaffa big 4 dominate the markets one is the network effect that is as services usefulness increases disproportionately with the number of participants the more the merrier then

there's the feedback effect the bigger the site the more data it can collect to optimize that system and that makes the site even more attractive to uses google and co hugely successful in securing the monopoly according to major silicon valley investopedia deal competition is full loses. there's just no way around digital capitalists is there. in india small businesses are fighting back against amazon india's powerful shopkeepers union has been trying to block amazon's entry into the market with protests as well as legal and political action the battles yet to be decided. meanwhile china's the tech giant out with its enormous file will. put its they've been pursuing quite a radical protectionism and i have to say very successfully. in the world's largest

domestic market the chinese counterparts to silicon valley's digital corporations have been a huge success and have gathered an immense number of users. so they get this algorithmic feedback effect in a very pronounced way. the chinese model is pushing digital capitalism very hard in its vast market. was. the overwhelming power of big multinational tech firms hold also challenges nation states western politicians are still looking for the right approach and the e.u. has imposed steep antitrust penalties american politicians like elizabeth warren or bernie sanders are even calling for the internet tech giants to be broken up. that's a lofty promise and by the way 7 of the 10 most highly valued corporations worldwide tech firms apple microsoft alphabet amazon facebook the chinese e-commerce group

alibaba and tencent which owns. the market dominance seems unshakeable except for apple and microsoft all these companies have been around for less than 25 years in just a short time they've become the biggest players in the world market and their main resources i intended they include user data and algorithms. but we dream only change anything if we broke up logic operations but then wouldn't you play is just take over the market and we'd be back where we stop it is a platform isn't a lot or merely these platforms are markets but since they're part of our digital infrastructure the classical market mechanisms no longer apply. these platforms should be treated as a public service and be a freely available infrastructure. because the india. should facebook and google be nationalized and should digital infrastructure be freely available just like roads

and rails without private corporations raking in a drain just profits would digital capitalism have to make way for digital communism. i'd say we are moving into a stormy transition radical social change has always had profound consequences for individuals the same went for the industrial revolution in time workers managed to fight for some of their rights with the digital revolution is similar what do you think will be soon and up as i'm the paid click will cause or will the digital revolution have positive effects on most of our lives let us know what you think on you tube facebook on d w dot com and see your them feel them. explore

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