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A better way to understand what we mean when we talk about privacy, then, is to see it as a right to self-­determination. Self-­ determination is about self-­governance, or determining one ’s own destiny. Its origins as a legal concept stretch back to the American Declaration of Independence, which…

We are already moving into a world where work can be be flexible, self-­directed, prioritize the sustainable use of resources, and be based on trust and community-­building. It is possible to imagine how gig enterprises could be transformed into worker cooperatives to ensure that the benefits of wo…

Automation under our current system—where retraining is expensive and the welfare net is minimal—wastes the potential of both workers and technology. It creates the paradox of both increased productivity and impoverishment. Outsourcing work to machines, particularly if the task is boring or dangero…

The survival of capitalism is also dependent on using technology to extract more from workers wherever possible. Companies are investing in technology that allows them to reduce their labor requirements through data-­driven scheduling, and the costs of such arrangements fall to workers to bear. The…

The aristocracy represented the ossified capriciousness of wealth distribution that Paine confronted in pre-­revolutionary America; Engels denounced the horrors imposed on workers by industrialists in nineteenth-­century England. The leaders of technology capitalism fall into a similar category tod…