#commoditization

[kenyatta]

CreativeMornings/New York: Yancey Strickler [Livestream]

Welcome Yancey Strickler to the CreativeMornings stage!Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur who explores new creative forms. He's t

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[worldpostday]

A 21st Century Business Strategy for Posts in Developing Regions.

Commoditization of postal products has made the courier and express parcel (CEP) market competition time-sensitive. In this kind of market, a longer lead-time period – the time between ordering/booking and delivery - is fatal for any postal or courier organization, while speed and service excellence are now even more paramount than the product itself or its price. For many Posts in developing countries, these rapid changes call for a profound adaptation of their strategies, operations and business models.

Learn more about A 21st Century Business Strategy for Posts in Developing Regions

[fourthdimensiontech]

Top challenges MSP’S are facing today

Forecasting the future of business – especially the challenges and opportunities, helps enterprises to create a successful business strategy. The fight for survival is continuing, and the changes are unavoidable. What makes you run up all the time is – being proactive

[xeraph2501]

[kenyatta]

Play to Lose — Real Life

NFTs and meme stocks are contributing to the financialization of the self

Financial inclusion may seem like a way of teaching more people how to successfully participate in speculative markets for their own benefit, but this narrative masks the often predatory terms of the inclusion for the benefit of the existing systems. Just as philanthropically framed microloans allow the global financial centers to open a thousand tiny cuts of interest collection in previously inaccessible areas, the new tech platforms and gimmicks reshape our lives and selves to more effectively serve as resources to be extracted and exploited. As Rob Aitkin argues in “A Machine for Living: The Cultural Economy of Financial Subjectivity,” “the process of financialization … entails the configuration not only of new assets in financial markets but also ever-widening kinds of populations that could understand themselves as risk-bearing, investing or indebted subjects capable of navigating those markets.” Financialization enters our daily lives not just through macroeconomic fallout — unemployment rates and global capital flows — but through the attitudes and behaviors it encourages or forces us to internalize, often in the guise of “opportunities.”

These practices create inroads to extract new forms of value from individuals: as data to inform the speculative investments of larger hedge funds, as users on platforms, and as debtors under the thumb of financial surveillance and discipline. They work to fill our minds with the language of debts and returns on investment, in much the same way as widespread student and medical debt do. In Revenge Capitalism, sociologist Max Haiven argues that these structurally imposed debts are construed as individualized “responsibilities” around which one is obliged to manage one’s life and future.

In other words, the sort of “financial inclusion” promised by pseudo-democratized investment entails a risky incursion of neoliberal market logic at the level of individual practice. In an environment of deregulation, risk, and desperation, people are urged (or compelled) to take on an entrepreneurial subjectivity. 

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Choices in life become “gambles,” as one scrambles to find bits of work or the big payout that would allow one to escape the condition of alienated work altogether, and our knowledge and skills become like assets that we must plan to increase the value of and deploy for high returns as performance in this arena is individualized. The terms of inclusion, which prompt us to see ourselves as smart, hard-working self-investors, can seem flattering, encouraging us to keep playing along. And while there’s always the vanishingly small possibility of becoming a runaway success in investments or stardom, most of the time we have no choice but to play to lose.

[dailybehbeh]

Behbeh

[huzni]

I’d love to hear these corporate old farts telling landowners, entrepreneurs, and politicians in all countries with any geopolitical claim over the Amazon that they can’t profit from any single tree standing anywhere within our national borders, despite there still being countless. I fucking dare them do it. Perhaps that’s what we need in order to make landowners, entrepreneurs, and politicians think of jungles and forests not as disposable objects we should all just exploit for the sake of profit and productivity, and then plainly be done with it; but as part of a well extended web of biological and ecological systems on which our health critically depends and permanently relies.

[bryantmcgill]

The total commoditization of the natural world has placed a veritable lien against the spirit of nature. — Bryant McGill, New Exclusive Content >> https://SimpleReminders.com