UberTherapy & Enshittification Part 2

“Therapists will become just the people behind the platforms, the click workers surviving on predatory prices and wage theft. You will pay a dynamic price, unsustainably low, but seduced by the offer of avoiding a day spent haggling with your insurance company. If you can live with the guilty secret that your affordable therapy is likely to pay your therapist below minimum wage. The demand for continuous growth in the platform economy will, in turn, influence the nature of the therapeutic relationship, where patients become ‘homoconsumens,” quoting Fromm, “demanding a restless and insecure and ultimately indifferent on-demand consumption of therapy that offers a flight from the facts of life.”

To read and listen to Part 2 of the podcast UberTherapy & the Enshittification of our Relational Lives with Justin Karter for Mad in America click below.

To listen to Part 1 click here.

You can buy a copy of UberTherapy: The new business of mental health by BUP here

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