Tech Won't Save Us15 Joulu 2022

Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Workers w/ Wendy Liu

Paris Marx is joined by Wendy Liu to discuss what it was like to work in tech in the 2010s and why structural changes in the industry are empowering an increasingly reactionary capitalist class to strike back at workers and upend the expectations of the boom period.Wendy Liu is a writer and the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism. You can follow her on Twitter at @dellsystem.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode: Casey Newton and Zoe Schiffer wrote about how tech CEOs are inspired by what Musk is doing at Twitter Mel Krantzler and Patricia Krantzler wrote Down and Out in Silicon Valley: The High Cost of the High-tech Dream Jacob Silverman wrote about David Sacks and the reactionary turn of tech billionaires Paris wrote about how longtermism is designed to justify the position of billionaires in society Julia Black wrote about the embrace of pronatalism within the tech industry Support the show

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The Year in Tech w/ Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, & Gita Jackson

Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant, Chris Gilliard, and Gita Jackson to discuss the year in tech, including Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the biggest stories of the year, what they’ll be watching ...

29 Joulu 20221h 47min

FTX Goes to Zero w/ Molly White

Paris Marx is joined by Molly White to discuss the ongoing collapse of the crypto industry, what to make of the implosion of FTX and Alameda Research, and what happens next with Sam Bankman-Fried.Moll...

22 Joulu 20221h 27min

Trusting Tech Billionaires is a Recipe for Disaster w/ Douglas Rushkoff

Paris Marx is joined by Douglas Rushkoff to discuss why internet visions of the 1990s were wrong to ignore corporate power, how the dot-com boom was like a Ponzi scheme, and why we desperately need to...

8 Joulu 20221h

Tech Isn’t Fixing the Crisis on Our Streets w/ David Zipper

Paris Marx is joined by David Zipper to discuss how Silicon Valley pitched new technologies as the fix for a whole range of transport problems, and how that really just distracted us from solutions wh...

1 Joulu 20221h

Why Advertising Shapes the Tech Economy w/ Daniel Joseph

Paris Marx is joined by Daniel Joseph to discuss why advertising is central not just to the tech economy, but modern capitalism itself, and how the business models of companies are increasing shaped b...

24 Marras 202252min

Why Visual Effects Look the Way They Do w/ Julie Turnock

Paris Marx is joined by Julie Turnock to discuss the history of the visual effects industry, the role that George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic played in setting industry standards, and what its c...

17 Marras 202249min

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover is a Disaster w/ Hussein Kesvani

Paris Marx is joined by Hussein Kesvani to discuss the mess of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, the problem with his solution to blue check privilege, and what we should learn from how he posts.Hussein K...

10 Marras 20221h 2min