Education Portal for Covid 19 Ye and Grace Gates

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Gates foundation has been one of the major founders of, like, privatizing education over the past decade in the united states. Ever since that eraof billionaires and backthan multi millionaires, arve always been special interest in taking over schools. We don't want these guys to be so powerful in the first place that they have this decision making role. But you can understand why. Schools is where we send our super curious, big brained little human offspring to have their heads filled with basic skills such as writing and adding numbers. If you're a millionaire, why wouldn't you want to control that?

Paris Marx is joined by Rob Larson to discuss how tech billionaires use philanthropy to massage their images, how they're creating a world that leaves nearly everyone else worse off, and how we need to respond with an online socialism to bring tech platforms under worker control.

Rob Larson is the author of “Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley” and an economics professor at Tacoma Community College. He also recently wrote about how billionaire-funded philanthropy is a public-relations scam for Jacobin and how the tech platforms are on their best behavior during COVID-19 for Current Affairs. Follow Rob on Twitter as @IronicProfessor.

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. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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