Comments on: How The People Formerly Known as the Employers are exploiting ‘free’ media workers https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-the-people-formerly-known-as-the-employers-are-exploiting-free-media-workers/2008/10/30 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:52:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Lennin Arriola https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-the-people-formerly-known-as-the-employers-are-exploiting-free-media-workers/2008/10/30/comment-page-1#comment-349446 Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:52:25 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2018#comment-349446 I think that’s the future. We’re moving towards a more competitive world in which all workers compete in a per project basis rather than a per post basis. Could a full time employee possibly write a series of best articles on different fields? I don’t think so. We need an expert on each field. It would be completely inefficient for a news agency to hire an expert on each domain for a full time, especially since each day a new knowledge field appears.

This of course affects not only journalism but practically every domain. As work continues to shift from being physical as it was the norm in the 20th century to being more and more thinking based and as communicating world wide is becoming easier, work will be offsite, on demand, and per project or task done. The 8-5 worker is going to be a relic of the last century.

What does this means for us on a human perspective? That only the best will make it through. If you want to change things, the next time you buy a product or service don’t choose the best price for the best quality or the quickest service… or this world will keep on becoming extremely efficient and competitive…

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