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Sean Locke Photography:
This article might be interesting in light of discussions of being taken advantage of...

"Platform cooperativism comprises a variety of businesses, ranging from media platforms like Stocksy (a cooperative that provides stock photography) to online marketplaces that hope to offer alternatives to tech-giant Amazon and its ilk. Though many of the businesses emerged independently of one another, they are united by common principles rooted in equality and transparency."

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18970/labor-rights-to-come-for-uber-and-aribnb-employees

cobalt:
Working together with your community can create a beautiful and longterm business where everyone makes reliable money.

Long live stocksy!

everest:
No doubt that Stocksy is the best that happened to stock photography in the last years.  Just hope this agency and similar models swallow all those agencies backed by large corporations and investment funds that give a crap about contributors.

Jo Ann Snover:
Nice publicity for Stocksy, but it's so closed (so few people are accepted) that I'm not sure how what it does applies to any of the open platforms or marketplaces.

There's clearly some very bad things happening to Uber drivers even as customers love the service; and to neighborhoods when Airbnb is effectively operating hotels in residential neighborhoods. I'm hoping that changes will happen there, but I can't make the connection with the Stocksy model as the way to bring it about

cthoman:

--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on March 22, 2016, 10:18 ---Nice publicity for Stocksy, but it's so closed (so few people are accepted) that I'm not sure how what it does applies to any of the open platforms or marketplaces.

There's clearly some very bad things happening to Uber drivers even as customers love the service; and to neighborhoods when Airbnb is effectively operating hotels in residential neighborhoods. I'm hoping that changes will happen there, but I can't make the connection with the Stocksy model as the way to bring it about

--- End quote ---

Unfortunately, we need to be protected from each other as well. I don't think there are many other ways to do it than not inviting everyone to the party.

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