Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism with WENDY LIU

The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society: Books, Film,... por Mia Funk

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“Abolishing Silicon Valley means freeing the development of technology from a system that will always relegate it to a subordinate role, that of entrenching existing power relations. It means designing a new system that isn't deluged in the logic of the bucket. It means liberating our worlds from the illegitimate ring of capital. Perhaps this sounds unfair to capital. Perhaps I sound like I'm not grateful enough for everything that capital has given us, but we don't owe capital anything; the things we attribute to capital were built by workers.

People can labor and sometimes die in a process. Their contributions are unrecognized in death as in life. So don't thank capital. It doesn't deserve our gratitude, and it doesn't need it. Thank the people who created everything that capital always takes credit for. Capital is a means of accounting f ... 

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Abolishing Silicon Valley, technology, capitalism, meritocracy, startup failure, collective action, labor history, privacy, AI, artificial intelligence, automation, exploitation, intellectual property, resistance, community, solidarity, consumption,