
058 - Abolish Silicon Valley, with Wendy Liu
General Intellect Unit
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The Future of Capitalism
I think we're kind of at a scary point right now with platform capitalism where essentially the justification for keeping capitalism going is to keep these platforms running. And I feel like they've walked down to a point where I don't really actually hear much of a defense anymore. It's just kind of, you know, the question gets dodged more so than it gets answered. There's this really good science fiction novel called Infinite Detail by Tim Mon and it's the book that shows what would happen if the internet suddenly shut down. You'll have all these like fascist groups come out of the woodwork. People won't be able to get anything because like containers, containerships will just kind of be
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