Are We Going to Return to the Golden Age of Capitalism?

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When i look at some of the arguments, i feel like it's kind of heralding back to the golden age of capitalism that ran from about the 19 fifties to the 19 seventies. The 30 years you're talking about, those post war years, they call that time. And in french they call it le trenc lories, the 30 glorious years. We had just emerged from a war, the debta asset ratio in most economies was better than it's ever been. I think that we do have a lot of those circum ances again,. write that we are entering a period in which we are going to be in a crisis that will require massive spending.

Paris Marx is joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss how the problems we associate with Big Tech aren’t the result of mind-control systems, but corporation consolidation. Cory argues we need to stop buying the overblown sales pitch, stop collecting so much data, and enforce antitrust legislation against the tech monopolies.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His most recent non-fiction book, “How to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism,” is available for free at OneZero. You can also preorder his next fiction book, “Attack Surface,” on Kickstarter or anywhere else books are sold. Cory has a daily blog at Pluralistic.net and you can follow him on Twitter as @doctorow.

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