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It seems like every day, some company announces a new cloud or platform service for people

A few months ago Google announced its Google Stadia game streaming platform, which will

include YouTube integration, and allow gamers to play games from most any screen with an

The announcement was met with some excitement from big game developers looking for new distribution

deals… and... a lot of skepticism from gamers, prompting eyerolls and also some questions

Will people actually own their games or will everything be subscription based?

And what will happen when Google takes on Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft… and popular PC

It’s not just gaming platforms that have people asking questions, though. 

“Platforms” and “subscription models” are spreading like the plague.

CBS has successfully forced nerds into submission by requiring them to pay 5.99 a month for

the privilege of watching Star Trek on their “All-Access” platform. 

Apple recently announced that devices will be taking a backseat to game, news, and video

And Disney, who already owns… a lot of things … is launching Disney+, which will ask us

to pay another subscription to watch things that were once available on Netflix and a

And NBC has yet to launch their own streaming service which will, again, steal The Office

People seem annoyed that these services are just another thing hankering to siphon a few

And is that problem platforms themselves?

Maybe, maybe not, but for better or worse, platforms are changing our entire economic

system and I’m here to talk about how, why, and what it all means. 

Welcome to this Wisecrack Edition on the platform economy. 

A Platform is a website or application that brings two or more sides of a market together,

that is, a digital space where people who need a service can find and pay for that service.

The site originally launched as AuctionWeb in 1995, and created a platform for someone

who wants to sell their autographed Marky Mark underwear to an eager buyer, this is

After eBay’s success, other companies started springing up with similar business models

Amazon originally connected book publishers with readers remember when amazon only sold

Ticketmaster created an online space for venues to sell tickets, and soon there were platforms

for everything… now Uber, connects drivers with passengers, AirBnB connects spare rooms

with travelers, and Spotify, connects listeners with music. 

But let’s back up for a minute how did we even get here?

Once upon a time before free markets, economies were regionally based, and self contained.

According to Political Economist Karl Polanyi, there were three general types of economic

Reciprocity, where goods are exchanged as gifts between communities.

For instance, a tribe gifts another tribe a cow, and eventually gets one back later

Householding, in which families produce food, goods, and tools for their own use and consumption.

And Redistribution, where a tribal leader or feudal lord controls all the resources,

and then redistributes them to members of their society.

Now remember this one, we’re going to come back to it later. 

In all of these, survival wasn’t really based on how efficient production was.

Sure, a crop may not grow well year over year, but there were contingency plans such as storing

crops, or minimal exchange on simple markets, like bartering with your neighbor for what

But eventually capitalism happened, and the rules changed.

People became increasingly separated from the things they needed to survive, turning

to the market to get things like food, water, and shelter, and selling their skills to whoever

By the late 1700s, industry was booming, and manufacturing began to take over Europe.

In 1776, Scottish economist Adam Smith published An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the

Wealth of Nations, outlining the benefits of efficient production and singing praises

The market eventually expanded, as standards of living began to change, from bare essentials

But having so many different sellers selling all these things led to competitive pressures.

If your goods were too expensive, no one would buy them.

So businesses started lowering production costs so they could sell their items for less,

while still maintaining enough profits. 

Businesses have been lowering production costs ever since, primarily by turning to technology,

Which was easy to do if you were in manufacturing as technology got better and better, and you

It started with assembly lines, which provided companies with cheaper labor that didn’t

need to be trained in any special skills— instead of learning how to put a whole car

together, a worker just had to learn how to put one piece of the car in one place. 

Eventually, large business realized that robots could do that instead of people, and since

you don’t have to pay robots salaries, soon some of these places barely had any employees

But there were still businesses that couldn’t really use assembly lines or robots to cut

as many costs— places like grocery stores, or taxi companies, or movie theaters.

Stores and service providers suddenly had to compete with… websites, where you could

get the same product or service mailed to you directly from the distributor with the

click of a button, or find a room in someone’s house to sleep in instead of booking a hotel

The owners of these new websites, these platforms, don’t need to pay any labor costs because

people doing the buying and selling are doing it for them.

In other words, Uber isn’t a taxi company, it’s a technology company, that pairs an

independently contracted driver with you, the consumer.

But even those independently contracted drivers are a liability, as the company moves towards 

Okay, so now we understand how platforms happened, but why are they making people so uneasy?

Well, it might be because people are losing their sense of autonomy and ownership.

You know how I asked you to remember Karl Polanyi’s redistribution, where one person

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