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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Rodrigo Fernandez
'Tech companies are using their monopoly to grow economic and political power'
'On top of the digital monopoly, they also have growing financial power that they are using to reinforce themselves and gain more political power'
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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Corina Schlombs
'Policies allowed for certain labour relationship to happen, so the EU needs to think how policies will be affecting and enabling future labour relationship'
She brings up the paternalistic narrative of 'company as family', which is interesting to me as North American scholars are often patronising the south for their societies being more founded on family ties than on casual mutual interest relationships.
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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Corina Schlombs
'Taking tech in the context of a post-growth economies we need to be very clear on what labour relationship these companies have been establishing'
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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Corina Schlombs
'Welfare Capitalism: the idea that companies voluntarily offer and pay for the labour wellbeing in exchange for labour refraining to unionise'
a very common strategy in tech companies, historically and today
Alx 🐈
Day 2 Panel 10 -
Corina Schlombs gives us an history overview on the birth of 'Economic Growth' in the US and how it was exported to Europe
EU market integration was very convenient as it was overcoming local/national fragmentation
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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen concludes with a call for a dialogue between the degrowth/post-growth crowd and the open-source crowd
(my first reaction is: good luck with that...🙃, but I'm sure a lot of you will prove me wrong)
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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen
It's kind of #meta (sorry not sorry for the pun) that she is talking about open source and interoperability platform and live-blogging it on the #fediverse
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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen
'The digital realm is undoing the rights of labour'
'The Cloud is not in the clouds. Data centers consumes 3% of the world electricity' while 'planned obsolescence generate growing waste'
'Tech industry also reproduce colonialist dynamics both in terms of material extraction and in terms of data extraction'
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Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen
'Tech industry today reinforce the current extractivist economy'
'Our lives are mostly organised around few [digital] companies'
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