Computer Says Maybe

Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman


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This week Alix interviewed David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice, to tell us more about how big tech companies act brazenly as legal bullies to extract wealth and power from the working class in the US. He makes a compelling case for the urgent need to re-orient our thinking about political power and organise against it.

We talk about legal devices like forced arbitration and monopolistic practices like algorithmic price fixing and wage suppression. And we dig into the existential issue of tech companies asserting more and more control over markets and people without taking any responsibility for the dominating role they play.

Further reading & resources

  • Towards Justice California drivers suit
  • Eichman in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banal State of Evil by Hannah Arendt
  • The Dual State by Ernst Fraenkel
  • Prohibiting Surveillance Prices and Wages by Towards Justice
  • Gill VS Uber — class action led by Towards Justice

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