What Is Value?

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These platforms are designed to keep us hooked for as much as possible. But what these tec giants are doing is basically creating a system of extraction that is making people addicted. This is completely insane, if we just step out of the scenario of normalization in that it's attacking people's freedom of thought. And this is free time that they've gained after working for a number of hours to survive. This free time is now recaptured through an addiction mechanism that pushes them into providing labor for these companies.

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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