Etsy Striking, Collective Unconsciousness Marshals an Emergent New Order

The Old Centralized Order is flummoxed by the Newly Awakened Decentralized Movement

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Etsy vendors are striking. Like other large platforms providing free lance opportunities, over time the character of the relationship evolves into the workers becoming enslaved to the platform. One class works and produces, another owns and dictates. The protest against the free-lance platform resounds in the Great Resignation, both rejecting the centralized corporate world order. Who is listening?

A Medium article by Luay Rahil No One Wants To Work — Businesses Are Losing It formulates it as a contest between old power and new power. According to the author, the old concentrates its power, and the new channels it.

Kristina Cassidy, the de-facto leader of the Etsy strike tells her story in a seven-part series.

The Etsy Strike Saga

All of the stories, in order.

I don’t like to introduce myself as a leader. I’d rather faci…