Deeply flawed op-ed by Ro Khanna. Tech companies have been ‘offering an aspirational vision’ for a while. It’s BS.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-beat-silicon-valley-at-its-own-game-now-it-must-prove-itself/2017/10/16/a0160c36-af96-11e7-a908-a3470754bbb9_story.html …
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the tech industry runs an extractive economy, based on surveillance and manipulation, and uses the take to make silly trinkets
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the only answer it has for struggling working people is “learn to code” or “wait for your dole check when we set up basic income”
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companies like Apple brag their products are “Designed in California”, while they avoid paying billions in California taxes
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Poorest by what metric? Poverty rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_rate … Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income …
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