The Consequences of Leaving Tech to the Private Sector w/ Rosie Collington
Tech Won't Save Us
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Is There a Systemic Retrenchment in the Private Sector?
I looked at this through the lens of Paul Pearson's concept of systemic retrenchment right. He was really interested in why Thatcher and Reagan were not actually able to kind of fulfill their ambition of completely rolling back the state with direct cuts. So he suggested that systemic retrenchments are often more critical for how privatization actually happens. Most critically is not through these kind of direct cuts to public services, but often through these invisible measures that are obfuscated by politicians. I think towards the end of the paper I talked about then how this kind of sector of digital technology must also be recognized as a powerful actor in shaping this obfuscation of the effects of its use within the government.
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