Emphasizing Political Movements Over Technology Solutions

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Exploring the significance of supporting social forces over technology solutions to address societal issues while leveraging technology to enhance social movements, with insights from guest Nora Kenworthy, an associate professor.

Paris Marx is joined by Nora Kenworthy to discuss how people rely on GoFundMe to access healthcare and the further inequities that adds to an already deeply unequal healthcare system.

Nora Kenworthy is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell.

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 made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

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Nora is doing an online event with the Debt Collective on June 13.
GoFundMe bought many of its competitors through the 2010s.
In 2020, GoFundMe posted in a campaign it set up in response to Covid: “We’re in a growth industry: pain.”

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