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How platforms capture entire professions

I teach music lessons through an app that takes 40% of my fee, but finding students on my own is impossible and I feel stuck paying for access to my own profession.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital platforms can become unavoidable intermediaries that extract value while making independent practice increasingly difficult.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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