Technofeudalism : : what killed capitalism

Title Technofeudalism : : what killed capitalism
Names Varoufakis, Yanis.
Varoufakis, Yanis narrator. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90638346
Book Number DB130941
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Book
Annotation "Big tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars -- markets and profit -- with its platforms and rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs to increase its power. Welcome to technofeudalism. Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or the rise of TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold. Insane sums of money that were supposed to re-float our economies after the crash of 2008 went to big tech instead. With it they funded the construction of their private cloud fiefdoms and privatized the internet. Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world, and is the greatest current threat to the liberal individual, to our efforts to avert climate catastrophe -- and to democracy itself. It also lies behind the new geopolitical tensions, especially the New Cold War between the United States and China. Drawing on stories from Greek myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power, and, ultimately, what it will take overthrow it." -- From publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Local Subject Unrated - UR
Male Narrator - MN
LC Subject Big data
Data mining
Capitalism
Economics - Sociological aspects
Technology - Economic aspects
Technology - Social aspects
Technology - Sociological aspects
Technology - Political aspects
Information technology - Economic aspects
Information technology - Social aspects
Internet industry - Economic aspects
Internet industry - Moral and ethical aspects
Nonfiction
Informational works
Notes ENG
Unrated. NLS/BPD
Call Number 306.46 ANF
Language English
Released 2024
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress, 2024
Original Publication Reissue of: New York : Melville House, 2024. 9781685891497
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