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Sherry Turkle

Team Human

CHAPTER

The Voraciousness of Capitalism

I think what's interesting is that there's a kind of voraciousness, a rapaciousness in the way in which capitalism developed. There were so many points at which capitalism understood that you could temper. Facebook could have been a very profitable company without becoming the rapacious collector of personal information and destroy or democratic infrastructure. It took a while for people to say, oh, raw materials, I wonder how we can gather and husband them at the same time.

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