Ep 158: Radically Networked Societies
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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Consumer Protests
A lot of these recent protests are consumer protests rather than worker protests. In so there's a wilson's matrix in public policy, which says that if the benefits for a policy change are concentrated, it is easy to do client politics. But with the intenet, it is now possible for consumers who are affected in a dispersed manner to still come together at lower costs and at higher scales. That's where you see lots of the protests in the recent eralges.
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