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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. R
by worik 4y 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 4y 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.