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the emergent property of any network of super black boxes archive/abolish-silicon-valley

When a large-scale crisis hits, it is tempting to attribute it to a conspiracy between the powerful. Images spring to mind of smoke-filled rooms with cunning men (and the occasional woman) plotting how to profit at the expense of the common good and the weak. These images are, however, delusions. I…

—p.11 Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment Winters of our discontent (6) by Yanis Varoufakis
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there are no ‘goodies’ or ‘baddies’ in this book archive/abolish-silicon-valley

[...] Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at the mercy of cruel circumstances that have been generated by an inhuman, mostly unseen network of power relations. This is why there are no ‘goodies’…

—p.2 Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment Preface (1) by Yanis Varoufakis
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there are no ‘goodies’ or ‘baddies’ in this book archive/abolish-silicon-valley

[...] Beneath the specific events that I experienced, I recognised a universal story – the story of what happens when human beings find themselves at the mercy of cruel circumstances that have been generated by an inhuman, mostly unseen network of power relations. This is why there are no ‘goodies’…

—p.2 Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment Preface (1) by Yanis Varoufakis