Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Workers w/ Wendy Liu
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Ideology of Meritocracy in the Tech Industry
The tech industry has a unique ability to quickly build a global kind of market for its product, so you can exploit a lot more customers very quickly. That allows the company to make a lot more revenue to pay these employees in a way that might not be as easy to attain in other industries. And thus, they can't kind of pay the kind of salaries that are expected in the tech industry. As we're seeing this kind of push back against labor by these people at the top of the industry, the pograms, the Elon Musk, the Mark Andreessen, all these kind of folks who are really turning toward right-wing ideology.
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