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> Are you referring to tech giants here? In particular, because they are the most impacted, but it's still valid for all big financial actors starting from real estate. > This is what sounded like conspiracy to me. A conspiracy typically is made by some who want to overthrow and substitute a power not by the those who rules against their subjects, that's instead called political agenda. As opposite to a conspiracy it's mostly public, the "sharing economy" is described everywhere, the industrie 4.0 is even a book (more than one), and so on. The agenda can be described simply as "you'll own nothing" where the "you" part means those who pronounce such sentence count to own anything and "rent" anything. In the IT world the cloud+mobile "the sole integrated platform" (actually not at all, but that's what advertised) have already "users" who own essentially nothing and very few giant owners, big enough to steer the IT world simply with their developments, in the physical world it's slowly happen "hey, try our new shiny autonomous taxis", "you do not need a car, just use our app and a car will arrive to bring you whatever you want", obviously the toward-rent trends in cities for both commercial and personal real estate that obviously does not fit much in a spread society, the ready made food downtown for the commuters instead of eating at home what personally prepared, to the point many new city "goshiwon alike" condos have essentially no kitchen but just a small fridge for bottled drinks and something to quickly heat already made food, no dishwasher, common washing machines with some kind of card-based auth to use in the condo basement and so on even "smart locks" for apartments and main entries. It's definitively NOT a conspiracy since it happen under plain Sun light publicly advertised as a good and needed evolution. But it's not that easy to made people owning nothing, accepting things like abolish the concept of inheritance (a relatively recent PR trend, with some famous testimonials) before, stating that anyone should start with his own arms in an open arena, now stating that successions taxes should exists and be higher and higher, selling "property rights" time limited at 99-years and so on. Remote work is the rock in a running mechanism, because if it spread it obviously push most remote workers outside the expensive, degrading and chaotic city, and actually in the western world potential remote workers are a very BIG slice of the population, also a wealthy and acculturated slice. So the obvious political need is to stop it or the entire big actors common interest informal agenda will derail. |