Cash Burning Machine: Uber’s Logic of Planetary Expansion

Cash Burning Machine: Uber’s Logic of Planetary Expansion

Uber’s programme of planetary expansion rapidly captures users and integrates cities. Like other platforms, Uber privileges growth at all costs in order to spin up a set of self-reinforcing dynamics like virtuous cycles and network effects. However, drawing on Arrighi, Hobson, and Arendt, Uber can a...

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Main Author: Luke Munn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: tripleC 2019-07-01
Series:tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
Subjects:
Uber
platforms
network effects
expansion
territory
imperialism
Online Access:https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1097

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