The deliberate design and maintenance of economic instability as a feature of labor systems, not a bug. Intentional precarization occurs when employers, platforms, or policymakers consciously structure work to be precarious because precarity serves their interests—it disciplines workers, suppresses wages, prevents organization, and ensures maximum flexibility for capital. The gig economy's algorithmic scheduling, the just-in-time workforce, the proliferation of independent contractor status, the erosion of labor protections—these are not unfortunate side effects but intended outcomes. Intentional precarization is the open-air prison's foundation: keep workers uncertain enough to accept anything, desperate enough to never resist.
Intentional Precarization Example: "The platform could have provided stable schedules and predictable income—instead, they designed algorithmic unpredictability because it maximized their flexibility. Not accidental precarity, but Intentional Precarization, precarity as architecture."
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Intentional Enshittification Example: "The app could have maintained quality, but once workers depended on it for survival, they intentionally degraded pay and conditions—not market forces, but Intentional Enshittification, the deliberate poisoning of your own product because you own the only well."
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