The Pandemic Has Put Everything on Its Head

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The world bank is projecting that growth could drink by eight % globally. We're seeing, for example, 50 thousand retailers in germany are expected to shut down because of this pandemic. And at the same time, we're seeing that buge apple, facebook, amazon, microsopt are amongst the eight companies whose market capitalization has grown the most in the past year. They're having a huge expansion, whilst, you know, other sectors of the economyard are shrinking. But the question is, how are we going to tax them? Right? There's a non profit called the fair tax mark. The government either issues extraordinary taxes on anyone who's made extraordinary profits

Paris Marx is joined by Juan Ortiz Freuler to discuss the recent global negotiations on the taxation of multinational corporations, how Africa is demanding the digital labor of its citizens be accounted for, how these tensions threaten to fragment the web, and why the Global South may hold a better future of technology that transcends the capitalist, centralized, and individualist platforms which currently dominate.

Juan Ortiz Freuler is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a member of the Tierra Común network of researchers. He recently made the case for a digital non-aligned movement. Follow Juan on Twitter as @juanof9.

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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