I can't feel my legshttps://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2018/09/24/walmart-requires-lettuce-spinach-suppliers-to-join-blockchain/ …
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Note that the pattern—pushing tasks out to contractors who are pitted against each other and find themselves locked in a downward spiral of earnings, in a way that creates terrible externalities for the rest of us—is just as true for Amazon or Uber as it is for hog farming
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IBM is clever enough to wave "blockchain" as a red flag to distract from a project that is about value extraction and the further dismantling of rural America. This is a small illustration of how tech stories are rarely about tech at all, but about the concentration of power

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