2.5 Democratic Start-ups for the Public Good

Media Democracy Pod

This week Tom and Dan are joined by Wendy Liu (@dellsystem) and Hettie O'Brien (@hettieveronica) to take another bite out of the emerging tech monopolies. We talk about Silicon Valley start-up culture and how to stop it, about the Tech Workers' Coalition and the emerging revolt against capitalist command and control, about the challenge the new monopolies pose to regulators, and what an enabling socialist state would look like in the context of new technologies. Wendy Liu is economics co-editor at the New Socialist and Hettie O'Brien is a writer who has recently been researching monopolies and anti-trust legislation in Washington, DC. Music by Makaih Beats.