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Economics

A Brave New App

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“Choice Architecture” and the gig Economy gamified are not easy ideas to portray in a movie, let alone in one which manages to effectively criticize this new form of labor “Apploitation”. It requires not a heavy-handed dystopia but rather a light yet disturbing touch, a nuanced narrative and attention to detail that manages to explain why people are attracted to these jobs and apps yet how they ultimately come to be dominated by them. A difficult mission that Noah Hutton’s Lapsis manages to pull off. A creepy yet all-to-real sci-fi parable.
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