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Of Tech Moguls and Gold Miners: A Capitalist History

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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The Limits of the Illusion

Malcolm Harris has written three popular books that are just to face the brutal inequality in our capitalist economy. In his new history of Palo Alto, he's arguing that Silicon Valley has for more than a century been the place where all the excess generated by that inequality gets absorbed and repackaged as progress. "The problem with Silicon Valley Bank is that they had too many deposits and not enough places to put it"

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