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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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