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Tech Feudalism with Yanis Varoufakis

The David McWilliams Podcast

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The Infinite Regressor

Alexa is supposed to be your servant, but it's just a node of a cloud-based system. It creates three types of exploited people: the customer whose consumer sovereignty has been shot to pieces because you think that you want something,. The capitalist who produced the gadget that you buy is also now a vessel. And finally, every time we search Amazon or Google or Facebook or whatever, we leave our footprint in terms of our likes and dislikes that adds to the algo's capital stock. We all produce our call as cloud serves, because we don't even know that.

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