信息产品与平台经济中的非雇佣剥削

Information Commodities and the Non-employment Exploitation in the Platform Economy

数字信息技术的进步推动了平台经济的发展,并催生了信息产品的出现。信息产品的价值来源是数字劳动,数字劳动具备生产性劳动的特征,其价值量也同样由社会必要劳动时间决定。信息产品可以被划分为最终产品和流通工具两种形式,它们在资本积累的过程中起着不同的作用。通过对信息产品的占有和利用,平台经济中的价值剥削已经突破了雇佣劳动制度的范畴,剥削的深度和广度进一步提升,更多的普通用户作为免费劳工被纳入资本的剥削体系之中。在这种局面下,网络平台也应当成为数字劳工反抗资本剥削的重要工具。

Advances in digital information technology have driven the development of the platform economy and spawned the emergence of massive information commodities. The value source of information goods is digital labor, which has the characteristics of productive labor, and its value is also determined by the socially necessary labor time. Information commodities can be divided into two forms, the final product and the circulation tool, which play different roles in the process of capital accumulation. Through the possession and utilization of information commodities, the exploitation of value in the platform economy has broken through the scope of the wage labor system, the depth and breadth of exploitation have been further enhanced, and more ordinary users have been included in the capital exploitation system as free labor. In this situation, the network platform should also become an important tool for digital workers to resist capital exploitation.