The book is also mentioned in
https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Foerdert-die-Hightech-Industrie-die-in-Staedten-wachsende-Ungleichheit-3808816.html
If you visit San Francisco, you'll notice metastasis of the servant economy:
- In high end supermarkets most shoppers (more than 50%) are servants
shopping for someone else (and obviously cannot afford to shop there
themselves.) They wander through the supermarket looking at their
handsets for guidance, which is reminiscent of how Amazon warehouse
workers spend their hours. But these are high-class servants. For the
lower-class servants, that do not personally shop, the supermarket staff
puts pre-packed bags into basement lockers, which these servants then
take to cars. It becomes obvious why Amazon is buying Whole Foods.
- Many restaurants now have a separate queue for servants that work for
one of dozen startups that mediate between restaurants and food
delivered to homes, after 30% cut. There is a stark class difference
between restaurant guests at tables and these servants.
- Streets are packed with chauffeured cars (Lyft, Uber, etc.), the
servants eyes glued to their handsets, as they wait, illegally parked,
for their customers.
The point is that the the two classes mingle in the everyday leisure
life, but unlike in the pre-servant economy, the classes are not
separated just by what they wear, drive, visit or buy. They are now
separated strictly by the function. If there was any egalitarianism in
the leisure-space, it's gone.
On 8/21/17, 04:44, Felix Stalder wrote:
At the risk of flogging a dead horse, it's noteworthy that Richard
Florida's new book, "The New Urban Crisis", by and large, falsifies his
earlier pronouncements on the "creative class" and his recipes for
urban renewal.
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