
ZIZ012 Ecology – A New Opium for the Masses (28.11.2007)
Slavoj Žižek - Collected Recordings
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The Problem With Private Property in the Digital Economy
The key antagonism of the so-called new digital industries is how to maintain the form of private property within which only the logic of profit can be maintained. I recently spoke, I forgot his name at some conference in Germany with a conservative economist who says a guy like Bill Gates is an anomaly. If you let market to itself, we would be in a situation where,. imagine just the United States government not intervening against Microsoft. You would literally have an individual or a couple of individuals privately owning our entire communication infrastructure.
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