Abolish Silicon Valley
by Wendy Liu · first published 2020
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Innovation. Meritocracy. The possibility of overnight success. What's not to love about Silicon Valley? These days, it's hard to be unambiguously optimistic about the growth-at-all-costs ethos of the tech industry. Public opinion is souring in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Theranos, and the workplace conditions of Amazon warehouse workers or Uber. We're starting to see the cracks in the edifice, as we realise that the wealth that the tech industry is so good at creating is neither sustainable nor always desirable. Abolish Silicon Valley is both a heartfelt personal story a
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on “Are smartphones serving as adult pacifiers?” ↗…schizophrenic do you realize it's our economic system and the perversion of technology to literally criminalize cooperation and the sharing of information (intellectual property regime (read the book Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu for more) for one of two groups of people (workers and owners)? > Maybe it's just me normalization of an anti-human economy starts from day -9 months (i.e. health/ill-health of the human…
on “OpenXanadu” ↗I absolutely agree with the author that the fear of technology is really the fear of capitalist technology. My favorite article about this is from Wendy Liu: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley “Reclaiming the emancipatory potential of technology will require prying it from the clutches of capital. But that is a worthy fight. If the task of politics is to imagine a different world, then the…
on “Ted Chiang: Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism” ↗…using it's BitTorrent + Git + cryptography qualities [4] (keyword: agent-centric). [1] Why I started my own Sudbury Valley school, https://www.reimaginedonline.org/2013/06/why-i-started-my-ow... [2] Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu, https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley [3] Cybersocialism: Project Cybersyn & The CIA Coup in Chile (Full Documentary), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLA2_Ho7X0 [4]…
on “Google introduces $50 4G smartphone” ↗…https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati... [2] http://mikorizal.org/Fromprivateownershipaccountingtocommons... [3] https://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2007/11/05/id-55 [4] Wendy Liu, https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley
on “Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?” ↗…forums...) it's interesting how you engage with only a small portion of my comment. it seems you didn't bother clicking through to the deeper critiques of the tech industry that i referenced (Wendy Liu's Abolish Silicon Valley Tribune article/essay). you casually dismiss serious in-depth critiques of today's system with anecdotal information ("I can access whatever I want, discuss whatever I want"); also by suggesting that…
on “Sequoia Productive Capital” ↗It’s funny to me that I’m reading this while listening to “Abolish Silicon Valley” by Wendy Liu. I don’t think any CEO can be moral if your primary obligation is “shareholder value”. Or in plain language: making other people more rich at the cost of others. I’m just happy the guy…
on “Goodbye, Twilio” ↗…Prashad, https://www.thetricontinental.org/the-rate-of-exploitation-t... [2] Jakob Rigi, https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/487/6... [3] Wendy Liu, https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/01/abolish-silicon-valley [4] https://twitter.com/pospigos/status/1174863182214549504
on “Second Swiss firm allegedly sold encrypted spying devices” ↗