Digital Feudalism Creators, Credit, Consumption, and Capitalism

Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the way we work, consume and pay for things. Under this new 'digital feudalism', we find precar...

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Main Author David Arditi
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Emerald Publishing Limited 2023
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SOCIAL SCIENCE
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Summary:Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the way we work, consume and pay for things. Under this new 'digital feudalism', we find precarious employment via digital platforms, we buy goods and services in perpetuity through subscriptions, and we pay for it all with debt. Digital Feudalism explores this new moment in capitalism, and how reliant global economies have become on these processes of consumption, work, and debt.
ISBN:9781804557686
1804557684
DOI:10.1108/9781804557662