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you just hate me because my IQ is sooo high (awful.systems)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yes, I know gig economy for programmers already exists, but to really make it the UberBnB for Upwork, the idea is to push the CAPEX to the workers themselves.

Uber became the world's biggest taxi company while owning no cars. Airbnb became the world's biggest hotel chain while owning no hotels. Imagine being the world's biggest cloud while owning no servers.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    ah right, soz, I meant to address that too but was typing from phone and fucked that bit up

    more than a few of the projects/things on these sites tend to be in a shape of "programmer provides all facilities", be it dev tooling or "before launch" site hosting etc. but in favour of your point, it's still definitely incidental instead of structural/built into the system foundations

    might not swing that way either, because it places a lot of leverage on the dev's side (and in an exploitative economy, the money doesn't like going for that)

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