Cash Burning Machine: Uber’s Logic of Planetary Expansion
Cash Burning Machine: Uber’s Logic of Planetary Expansion
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烧钱机器：Uber 的全球扩张逻辑
DOI：
10.31269/triplec.v17i2.1097
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2019
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通讯作者：
Luke Munn
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Luke Munn
优步的全球扩张计划迅速吸引了用户，并整合了城市。与其他平台一样，优步不惜一切代价优先考虑增长，以推动一系列自我强化的动力，如良性循环和网络效应。然而，借鉴阿里吉、霍布森和阿伦特的经验，优步也可以被理解为帝国主义的当代化身。平台在一项积极扩张的方案中扩大其领土，这一方案因未来的财务收益而合理化。文章将这些自我延续的技术动态与帝国的自我扩张逻辑结合在一起。在创始人的才华横溢和初创企业的战略创新的背景下，这种框架突显了一些不受控制的力量和首要任务，这些力量既投资于平台，也制约着平台。
Uber’s programme of planetary expansion rapidly captures users and integrates cities. Like other platforms, Uber privileges growth at all costs in order to spin up a set of self-reinforcing dynamics like virtuous cycles and network effects. However, drawing on Arrighi, Hobson, and Arendt, Uber can also be understood as a contemporary incarnation of imperialism. Platforms extend their territories in a programme of aggressive expansion rationalized by future financial gains. The article combines these self-perpetuating technical dynamics with the self-expanding logics of empire. Against the assumed brilliance of founders and the strategic innovation of start-ups, this framing highlights some of the uncontrolled forces and overarching imperatives that both invest and constrain platforms.
卡尔·皮尔逊的《科学语法》及其对漱石的影响
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2007
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N. Karami;J. Iijima;A.Takahashi;椿 広計
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椿 広計