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other words, taxes and budgetary expenditures. According to researchers who study
the impact of digital economy development on the structure of employment, it is
likely that by 2030, dozens of professions may disappear in financial intermediation,
law, tourism, library, translation and a number of other areas [Удальцова Н.Л.,
Мосина В. И. (2018) Современные тенденции развития цифровой экономики и
ее влияние на предпринимательскую деятельность //Экономические науки,
2018, 5 (162), p.44].
In the digital environment, the difference between the concepts of activity space and
workplace is expected to decrease. The first signs of such a position are manifested
in large cities. To substantiate this thesis, it is necessary to return to the encyclopedic
interpretation of the concept of digital economy. “The digital economy provides for
economic activities based on electronic processing, storage and transmission of
information, including physical infrastructure and software development activities”
[The Internet Encyclopediya (2003), 2 Volume Set, p. 478].
In traditional competition, the inertia of an enterprise model cannot adequately respond
to the widespread diversity created by the digital environment. This manifests itself
more clearly, especially in the fight against competition. So, in the digital environment,
all economic agents are competitors to each other. "In the digital economy, we have to
wait for the competitive struggle not from competitors, but from everywhere. When
information is digital and merged in the network, all links are scattered and no business
is secure." [The Digital Economy: Rethinking Promise and Peril in the Age of
Networked Intelligence (2014), McGraw-Hill Education. p.20].
The digital environment has the potential to rival the quality of product spread speed
and scalable coverage. Thus, as the duration of the impact of the known quality on
the market position of the manufacturer decreases (competing innovations do not
play a role in this), the ability to confirm the quality of the product is limited. In
urban areas, there are also analogical trends. In other words, the speed of new
production-technological relations is so high compared to areas with low levels of
economic activity that the competitiveness of innovations depends more on its
virtual environment than on its real self-promotion in the market.
Once information becomes an economic resource and a mass-consumed product, its
direct impact on the competitiveness of economic agents in major cities becomes
stronger. Under certain conditions (taking into account the Internet of things and a
number of other directions and technologies of development), the goal of digital
economic activity is to increase the competitiveness of material and non-material
production, as well as services aimed at mastering the benefit. This is the focus of
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