About this episode

Sociologist Will Charles discusses the gig economy and its ideological implications with host Alex.

On the gig economy, big tech, and ideology. Sociologist Will Charles talks to Alex about a form of social organisation that has stopped trying to justify itself. How should the gig economy work and how does it actually work? Is any worker in this economy a 'true believer'? Why isn't digital sophistication a proof of economic efficiency? What's the relationship between secular stagnation, value capture, and rentierism? Do workers hold to a latent moral economy that could provide the basis for revolt? Full episode for subscribers only. Sign up: patreon.com/bungacast Readings: Muskism and the Myth of Productive Revolution, Will Charles Post-Legitimate Society, Will Charles & Ryan Gunderson Muskism Is the Specter Stalking Our Present, Alex Hochuli, Jacobin Relevant episodes: /538/ Muskism ft. Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff /522/ At the Bottom of the Tar Pit ft. Benjamin Studebaker /540/ Welcome to the Apolar and Post-Multilateral World ft. Tom Chodor /546/ Reading Club: Are We All Post-Liberal Now? ft. Geoff Shullenberger /547/ What Are the Politics of Stagnation? ft. Dylan Riley

People in this episode

Host: Alex

Guest: Will Charles

Topics covered

• gig economy
• big tech
• ideology
• social organization
• economic efficiency
• moral economy
• revolt

Keywords

• gig economy
• big tech
• social organization
• economic efficiency
• moral economy
• revolt
• secular stagnation
• value capture
• rentierism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jacobin

Books & works: Muskism and the Myth of Productive Revolution, Post-Legitimate Society

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