Nationalize Zuck: Why Everyone Loses in Platform-Capitalism

Nationalize Zuck: Why Everyone Loses in Platform-Capitalism

Like most, I find every remark surrounding the 2020 election explosive. Notice as each party rebrands its relationship to business. Senator Warren saber rattles at Amazon. President Trump does too. Andrew Yang embraces big tech but caveats with universal basic income. Taxes? Guns? Such relics, one can hope, will be sidelined to Bezos, automation, and the technocrats at large.

Something fundamental has changed in the market. Rockefeller was demonized for wanting the oil. How quaint this seems today! Amazon and Google want your entertainment, cars, apparel, groceries, drones—anything software can touch.

These ambitions aren’t differences of degree but in a paradigmatic […]

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