Douglas Rushkoff: "The Ultimate Exit Strategy"
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Douglas Rushkoff: "The Ultimate Exit Strategy"
when you no longer have to work to live, will you still want to live?
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly... See more
when intelligence is free, will you still trust your own?
when energy is limitless, will anything feel earned?
the zero cost world is not some glowing technoheaven. it’s ego death at civilizational scale. it’s the disintegration of “i matter because i do.” and most are wildly... See more
signull • the zero cost world is coming & it’s going to break your brain
SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST
Escape Fantasies Of The Tech Billionaires
Douglas Rushkoff
Critique of capitalism’s dependence on scarcity, rising fascist threats, and classic predictions about concentrated private capital power
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So this technology piece does pose an existential threat because of what we said earlier about how capitalism relies on artificial scarcity, because we actually do have an abundance of everything we need. And if that abundance were actually allowed to reach the masses, how's that, Derek Thompson, for your theory, that the system wouldn't work. Yo
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Unintended value shifts driven by tech platforms and media, and the need for intentional, community-driven human intervention.
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And so this book points out, here are the problems, that if we have these value systems, we're only going to be pushing towards more money. We're not going to be pushing towards more art. If we have this kind of media that's powered by display ads, we're only going to be pushing towards this kind of content, not this kind of content, et
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Critique of growth-obsessed tech and economic models, their social harms, and rethinking growth with planetary and human limits.
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We need those kinds of organs to be operational. One of the critiques we'll sometimes hear of the social dilemma is that if it was just the ad-based business model, then what about WhatsApp? WhatsApp doesn't use ads to power itself. And yet it still causes hate mobs in India, the sort of the viral nature of how disinformation and misinformation- vi
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