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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…

Paine’s writings mark the beginning in Western political thought of a very long tradition, namely that people are worth more than their productive capacity. People are not simply economic units whose moral worth is measured by what they produce for the market. Every person is entitled to a share in…

These are serious and frightening design problems, but they also result in an immense waste of human potential. It is not just that companies do not invite feedback on their software or input from users on their design. Their objective, the purpose of their software, is not to service the user. The…

Digital technology, at least as much as any innovation over the last two centuries, offers us the opportunity to create a society that can meet the needs of every human being and allow them to explore their potential. But at present, too much power over the development of technology rests in the ha…