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THE ANTIDOTE AGAINST THE UBERFICATION OF THE ECONOMY
Uber is the largest taxi company in the world, but it has no own taxis. AirBNB is the largest hotel chain in the world, but it does not have its own rooms. Youtube is the largest media company in the world but it has no own content". It is the hip and somewhat misleading inaugural talk that today dominates the world of innovation. "Change is the only constant",
Uber is not a taxi company BECAUSE it does not have its own taxis and AirBNB is not a hotel chain BECAUSE it does not have hotel rooms. Was it this simple? And innocent? Than "Real" taxi companies could plan their rides by Uber. "Real" hotel chains could rent their rooms through AirBNB.
Whatever it is, it is a new kind of organization that we need to think about in a different way.
FUNDAMENTALS OF A NEW ECONOMY
The impact of this new type of business will be large. Thanks to this kind of services, we can choose what and when we earn income. I could ride a few days of the week and deliver to Uber while renting my holiday home through AirBNB if I'm not staying there. Meanwhile, I assist in encoding software on Github and I play help desk on Stackexchange. Through payment systems like Mobbr everybody gets his part. Economic freedom and self-determination, no longer work for a boss, on awkward fixed times, every day the same boring colleagues with their eternal football talks, the same stupid work, but choose for yourself.
While there are also great sustainability benefits because resources can be shared more easily. As soon as availability of this type of service is good enough, it is no longer necessary to own all of the resources (devices, machines, tools, tools, etc.) as we can use them at any time from others. These types of companies form a new kind of economy that better fits the way we increasingly organize ourselves, in networks today.
THE EXPONENT POWER OF CROWDSOURCING
The keyword is crowd sourcing. Crowds ourcing is outsourcing production to an external crowd, usually to us, the internet audience. On the one hand, these types of companies collect the demand for their product (service), and on the other hand, they provide those products through a loose connection of free-lancers. Companies and organizations based on crowd sourcing are called platforms, or if you want to make transparent hip: ExOs, from 'Exponential Organization' as they are called today. A platform brings producers / suppliers in contact with consumers / customers and coordinates production if necessary. Platforms by themselves are nothing new: app stores and operating systems are platforms. Marketplace and exchanges too. Social networks. Even the public road is a platform.
Platform companies believe in the crowd sourcing that they do not have their own means of production but borrow from their crowd. Do not worry about buying machines or recruiting staff if you need it, and do not sell and dismiss it again if it is no longer necessary. This allows them to scale very quickly, hence the exponential organization. A fairly brilliant business model, if you get it going.
UBERFICATION LEADS TO MONOPOLIES
So everyone is free thanks to Uber and co. Or right? These services are somewhat paradoxical because they also control the freedom they bring us at the same time. It is freedom on condition. A platform is a single-point-of-control for the economy that makes it possible. And as today, only a few companies control the internet economy (Google, Amazon, Apple, Cisco, Microsoft), so only a few platforms will control most of the new economy.
"A Uberfication of our economy. This economy will be privately managed, where only a few people determine our rights and collect the bulk of the proceeds. "
A UBERFICATION OF OUR ECONOMY.
This economy will be privately managed, where only a few people determine our rights and collect the bulk of the proceeds. If we are to surrender to this type of platform so much for work and income, then the Uber model is undesirable for many reasons. It also does not feel good: if crowd brings in all the means and labor, but does not have a participation and does not share the value increase of the company. In such a society we will only be slave drones, in competition with AI`S and robots in addition.
The solution is 'bitcoin'. Many people still think of money when they hear bitcoin, but that was "only" the first application of an invention called "the block-chain."
BLOCK-CHAIN TECHNOLOGY AS ANTI-DOSE
With the advent of bitcoin it is possible to make companies that are honest. Particularly, bitcoin itself is such a company. On the one hand, bitcoin is a platform that allows transactions to be performed in such a way that they always comply with the rules applied by the majority (inexcusable) and in such a way that they are always "cash" (without intermediaries, the sender always acts directly with the recipient , As with cash money). On the other hand, the bitcoin network is simply a self-rotating "business" that facilitates payments (more correct: transactions). It is common ground with Uber that it has no own means of production. As Uber has no own taxis, the bitcoin network does not have its own computers or databases it crowd sourced them.
Once you install the bitcoin software, you are actively part of the network, then you're part of the company. The network rewards this delivery of computing power and storage with freshly crafted bitcoins, which we call 'mining'. Unlike Uber, however, bitcoin does not have any management or permanent employees or shareholders, and it is impossible for anyone (management, hacker, government) to change rules, exclude others or retrieve tasks. Bitcoin is a democratic anarchy, and this doesn`t exist on the internet. The only way to change bitcoin's operation is to propose changes to the program code. This code is open source and anyone can work on it. As soon as the community accepts new code, it will automatically roll over the entire network and the new rules will come into effect. These new rules will apply to everyone, no exception.
CUT THE MIDDLE MAN
Based on bitcoin, it is possible to create platforms of which each participant automatically owns, for example, according to individual input and value. Without central points of failure, control of censorship. No one can prevent others from participating or forcing other terms. The entire operation of such a platform can be programmed into code developed by open-source communities so that everyone can check and contribute. To prevent fraud, hacking, censorship or downtime, this program code will not run on a central computer, but on the bitcoin network, so everywhere at the same time.
In the absence of a better name, they are called decentralized autonomous organizations, Owner of such a business is simple: Just use the app to perform tasks. Involvement in such a business is also simple: simply download Github's code and make changes that will or may not be accepted by the community. Or, if you are not an expert in elliptic curve cryptography, decentralized systems, and do not have ten years of programming experience in language C ++: submit so-called feature requests that are then programmed by others. Or not.
Either way, the Uberfication of the economy has great advantages but only if provided with a good dose of Bitcoinification. This can be done by the new Ubers as decentralized, autonomous platforms. Let's call it a block chain platform, to the underlying bitcoin technology. With block chain platforms, large parts of the government can be replaced by a bit-coin-like network, as are major public utility features, such as banks, transportation, housing, payment systems, power companies, network administrators, insurers, RDWs, cadres, and so forth...
Do not think it's science fiction, or distant future: the launch of Lazooz.org has built a better version of Uber, which has the advantages but not the disadvantages. Although their system is having trouble finding users, it is just operational. Lazooz only exists as a network of apps that run on our phones and shares ownership in proportion to contributions. Thus, it is already possible. It is just awaiting political parties that make it their goal to make government and utilities as much as possible unnecessary with this kind of technology by subsidizing their development and eliminating hostile discriminatory rules. Then I think I will vote again.
