sharecroppers

For the price of that we are all sharecroppers in a feudal market where Apple is the King.

And the people who make those things should not be sharecroppers either.

The iAP fad is a direct result of game studios becoming sharecroppers in Apple and Google's fields and of the rules they have set.

They do enough of the blocking apps game on the sharecroppers.

It reminded me of stories from sharecroppers in the south who lived and worked with a low but constant level of fear, pressure and anxiety.

Lure developers on to their platform as sharecroppers (done) 4.

Developers: We're the Sharecroppers for the Future!

Realistically, if the investors end up owning more than 50%, the founders are going to feel like sharecroppers and lose motivation, so good investors don’t get greedy that way.

If you're going to call Facebook contributors sharecroppers, that's fine, but they are sharecroppers who spend all of their time arranging the seeds into a posterized mural of their pet cat, not planting them in the field and toiling to harvest the crops.

Then as I realized money making was - broadly - absent from SO, it became clear that the digital sharecroppers were what was fueling whatever money making venture it would turn out to be.

Economically efficient in the aggregate, but but far from ideal for those farmers who end up as sharecroppers on the land they used to own, or taking up some other line of work in which they have no special skills.

During the Jim Crow era, the worst discrimination against blacks came not from the elite (many of whom had been abolitionists during slavery and equality-minded liberals afterwards), but from poor white sharecroppers who were one degree removed from slavery themselves.

I think the post-Civil-War version of sharecropping was also "completely voluntary"; sharecroppers could, and did, leave for the cities.

As I listened the term "Digital Sharecroppers" came unbidden to mind.

I'm not sure where I stand on calling users "sharecroppers".

The "digital sharecroppers" may not be working for money, but they are expecting something less tangible in return for their efforts, and the things they want are not always compatible with the site owners making money.

Sharecroppers essentially rent land, paying the landowner back with a share of the crops grown on it.

Sharecroppers had no real choice, lots of risk, and such an arrangement was their only income.