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One of my biggest gripes with the tech critique of Rushkoff (and Doctorow for that matter) is the insistence of bringing in their leftist politics into it. Go t
by JanneVee 3y ago
One of my biggest gripes with the tech critique of Rushkoff (and Doctorow for that matter) is the insistence of bringing in their leftist politics into it. Go talk to any laissez-faire capitalist of the techs problems as they present them they would agree with them. The biggest problems today of tech is that the big corporations are doing regulatory capture and rent-seeking. Heck even going with the aspect of big corporations using behavior modification techniques for profit would have libertarians going WTF.
- worik 3y ago> One of my biggest gripes with the tech critique of Rushkoff (and Doctorow for that matter) is the insistence of bringing in their leftist politics into it. Really, because.... > The biggest problems today of tech is that the big corporations are doing regulatory capture and rent-seeking That is a left wing analysis. These days. I understand that there is a dry economic analysis, usually associated with the right, that criticises regulatory capture and rent-seeking, but it is not part of the current, dominant, right wing analysis. These days being anti "regulatory capture and rent-seeking" is a left wing position. The position Doctorow takes
- JanneVee 3y agoThat is why I tried to qualify it with "Go talk to any laissez-faire capitalist " without that little bit of qualification you are trying to ignore my argument and say it is all left wing. My point is that there is common ground here and having the people that has written and thought deeply of the problems decided of instead of trying fix it go on try to abolish capitalism instead which is a fools errand leaving us worse off.