Is the Drive to Quantify Everything?

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Tack is key to creating these natialized speculative relationships, in extending them into more aspects of society. Tais is being used to collect data and aggregated and arbitrary categories which can then be put on the market. The drive to quantify everything speaks to people who just have no ambition and believe that anything can be outside of the market. It's ridiculous the way that people's minds go blank when tech gets introduced. And so there's always one concern, but i don't think it's too late? Riht, in all iterations or mostly iterations of tack, mostly human beings are concerned with how to make markets happy,. and secondary cerns about social welfare.

Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, how technology is enabling an extension of speculation and gambling, and why those pressures need to be opposed.

Edward Ongweso Jr. is a staff writer at Motherboard/Vice and a co-host of This Machine Kills. Follow Edward on Twitter at @bigblackjacobin.

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Edward wrote about Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition and the casino economy we increasingly find ourselves in.
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