Submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/yanis-varoufakis-techno-feudalism-capitalism-interview/
Are We Transitioning From Capitalism to Silicon Serfdom?::The idea that we are entering an era of techno-feudalism that will be worse than capitalism is chilling and controversial. We asked former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to elucidate this idea, explain how we got here, and map out some alternatives.
nah its still capitalism
Dafuq is he wearing?!?
Amazon Basics “Douchebag Collection”
🤣
The backrest cover of an Eastern European long distance bus seat.
Bus seat couture
I presume his arms are detachable and interchangeable. He is currently sporting his “business meeting” arms, will switch to his “swole bro” arms when he goes to the gym, and then has a set of shorter arms that he couples with trousers with very deep pockets when he is reviewing the salaries of the lower paid Amazon employees.
Looks like knockoff mo-cap.
Not “Silicon Serfdom”, but Serfdom nonetheless you fucking idiot. You’re helping.
How do you transition something that’s never really changed?
Can someone explain why these organizations ‘undermine the economy and democracy’?
more powerful than the government
That’s probably a matter of perception on my part. In the US, I don’t see them that way. They still get called to the carpet by Congress and fined. Sometimes I think the fines are low enough they consider it just a cost of doing business.
I don’t think small nations have that same feeling, especially when dealing with a US based company, or a national customer base that’s large enough to make them feel it if they were lost.
data selling and privacy
Well, at least the EU is fighting on those fronts. Props to them.
Read or listen to Yanis explaining the concept he described as techno feudalism.
I see someone else also listens to Factually! podcasts.
No. The intelligence community would never give up such control.
And if lobbies take their power?
dave@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Is that a frickin rotating chair?
https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/cd6ec8b0-a249-41d7-afe5-1ecc15c41dea.jpeg