Big Tech's Waste "Solutions" Are a Scam / Matthew King
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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, This is hell. |
| 0:37.0 | hell. Hell. this is hell and yet again there's definitely a fortune being made in the |
| 0:57.4 | crime we will be discussing today we started this week by talking about who are |
| 1:02.2 | a guest award-winning writer Clark Randall |
| 1:04.4 | describes in his recent article at the Boston Review as Bond Villains in that municipal bondholders bail out cities when their budgets come up short |
| 1:15.4 | and make a killing while doing it. At times killings are literally the outcome |
| 1:19.5 | as municipal bound holders profit when cities lose police violence lawsuits. |
| 1:27.0 | This morning we continue our look into the ugly ways fortunes are being made, |
| 1:31.0 | fortunes that should be a crime to amass. These wasteful |
| 1:35.2 | fortunes are just that, filled with waste, toxic waste created by big tech companies |
| 1:40.5 | that don't seem to give a damn about the environmental consequences of their products or |
| 1:46.1 | the environmental consequences of their production. Instead of considering how not to make so much waste. Big text seems more interested in |
| 1:55.4 | profiting not only from the waste they make, but cashing in while cleaning it up |
| 2:01.5 | afterwards as well. |
| 2:03.0 | We'll do our best to learn just how bad big big tech's waste problem is in a few minutes |
| 2:12.0 | when we speak with culture, tech, waste, wealth, and skyscrapers. |
| 2:19.3 | Yes, skyscrapers writer Matthew King who posted the new republic article |
| 2:23.3 | Big Tex waste solutions are a scam. Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing |
| 2:30.7 | our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and |
| 2:34.7 | inefficient cleanup promises from the tech industry. |
| 2:38.0 | Matt's essays and reportage on waste urbanism and inequality have appeared in publications like the Atlantic, |
| 2:45.6 | Pacific Standard, and the Baffler among others. |
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