
059 - The Difference Engine, with Ben Tarnoff
General Intellect Unit
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The Role of Technology in the Production of Wealth
The tech industry is able to sustain itself by being a kind of weird squirrel spider that just goes around gathering stuff up and scuttling it away. It's like the best lever you could ever hope for would like get you leverage into wedging a tiny little particle of gold out of the soil or something like that. The technology stuff is often enabling a cheaper harvesting of these kinds of resources, right? I don't know, imagine you had a field and there's a bunch of gold in this field, but it's in micro particles and stuff,. This tech thing is much better at wedging itself into these tiny spaces and extracting just that little smidgen of value through this kind of
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