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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tripleC
2019-07-01
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Series: | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique |
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Online Access: | https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1097 |