Exploring a Book's Insights on Canada, the United States, and Technology

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A discussion on a fantastic book that delves into the interplay between Canadian and American ideas, with the hope of educating Americans about Canada. The chapter also touches on the crisis of the public healthcare system and the impact of technology on different aspects of life.

Paris Marx is joined by Astra Taylor to discuss how capitalism creates insecurity to sustain itself, the way tech is used to make us more insecure, and what it will take to change that.

Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker, and political organizer. She’s the author of The Age of Insecurity and co-founder of the Debt Collective. Her next book Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea, written with Leah Hunt-Hendrix, comes out in March.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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Astra wrote about the Insecurity Machine for Logic Magazine and the Dads of Tech for The Baffler.
Find excerpts from The Age of Insecurity in The New York Times and The Walrus.
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