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beethoven is for us. is for. beethoven 202250th anniversary here. a drop off in an hour i've been a hari 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 our receiving job requests by meeting friends and getting paid for it all but the life of a by korea may not be quite as great as companies would like you to think only contract employees have a guaranteed income. get their assignments through an app. and algorithm decides how much they will. let algorithms consider performance criteria such as speed position and reliability they don't care about the human being behind the data self-employed koori is looking into these conditions of the so called economy they fight for any short commission. university. 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 doesn't. quite often they find themselves at the mercy of the up 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 in germany unions and politicians are raising. new developments in digital technology we're seeing new forms of exploitation in precarity by couriers for example they've gone without any real social safety net for a long time. doesn't sound easy but i don't want to be a by korea so that's not my problem. actually that's a bit shortsighted so-called digital capitalism has broad radical changes to our

working lives and it's affecting more and more people according to. and she should know he's been working in the 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 positions google's already proving them right not even half of the employees are under contract and the gig economy many work in precarious instances 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 their workday is determined by digital. warehouse workers in particular are monitored very very closely. that a 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 that people were reduced to performing single simple ideal movements of. that. digital technology that optimizes workflows must be every employee is 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 a lot of iraq will fall months in detail and how does that affect me mr dahl differs assaf often the physical boss disappears and is replaced by digital technologies that are invisible to keep far closer watch. these mathematical theory to these mathematical see them in these mathematical theorems about a group. 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 commonplace 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. would i again. underline fashion retail is the land developed is there no rating system based on co worker feedback in order to digitally track the worst performance of the company's 5000 some employees union friendly foundation examined this system this study shows that the sensation of total surveillance that creates damage the working environment and yes more and more companies are favoring digital monitoring and workers with flexible availability under these circumstances workers can hardly defend their interests. with revealing with the kind of digital early capitalism it is a new digital factories were popping up there's no regulation that's the kind of thing we need a process involving labor struggles with that stuff 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 is the reason i actually recognize many developments in this digital platform economy that we know from the history of the workers' movement 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 already part of labor law at least in germany the large internet corporations i'm 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 are just a nuisance that. and they don't like taking responsibility for what happens well besides they have a watertight defense is they've insisted that it just intermediaries all that this neutral market places of course that's not really the case says. the. 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 side the more data it can collect to optimize the system and that makes the site even more attractive to uses google and co hugely successful in securing their monopolies according to major silicon valley investor pizza deal competition is full news this. 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 their 1000000000 euro market with protests as well as legal and political action the battles yet to be decided. meanwhile china simply look to take china 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. 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 is 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 that made resources i intend to bill they include user data and algorithms. but would really change anything if you broke up logic operations but then wouldn't you players just take over the market and we'd be back where we stop it is a platform isn't a lot only 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 similar what do you think will be soon and up as the page 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 the w. dot com and see your them.

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w. w's crime fighters are back with the africa's most successful radio drama series continues print all of the zones are available online. and of course you can share and discuss on w. africa's facebook and other social media platforms crime fighter to mean you know. things of him but most of the the with the media against hezbollah move being engaged also in fighting the is about you think good. money out of companies got most of these are puppets in the american lebanon's hezbollah movement to use condemned as a terrorist group by many countries including the us and most arab states but it also has a powerful political face with seats in parliament and government my guest this week from beirut is one of its politicians musawi how does the self named paul.