Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Workers w/ Wendy Liu
Tech Won't Save Us
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The New Ideology in the Software Industry
The amount of money you make as a worker in our current society has so little to do with your individual worth in any sense like it. I don't think that this meritocratic narrative is going to have as strong a hold anymore because there isn't as much money being thrown at people. What I would hope would dawn on people instead is the sense that actually this meritocracy myth was always a lie. The thing that the industry does the tool it takes on people is that it does creep in in this very insidious way into their sense of worth. It warps their mind and makes them think, well, if I don't have a job or making a lot of money, then am I
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