Silicon Valley Vs. Humanity / Malcolm Harris
This Is Hell!
This Is Hell!
4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I love the crackles from the vinyl. |
| 0:05.0 | Right isn't a funny it's on YouTube but it's still doing vinyl crackles. |
| 0:10.0 | It's really great and especially with Eno. |
| 0:12.0 | I have a whole bunch of undertones records |
| 0:15.5 | from the 1980s. |
| 0:17.0 | They all, they're all digitized now, |
| 0:19.2 | but they all crack one pop. |
| 0:20.2 | That's a warmer sound. |
| 0:21.4 | It's great. This is hell. |
| 0:45.0 | Hell. |
| 0:52.0 | Live from the United States where capitalism is the virus. is hell but if you live in places like Silicon Valley you likely |
| 0:57.9 | don't think of capitalism is a plague that we should protect ourselves |
| 1:01.5 | against as much as it is a boon, a great benefit to society |
| 1:06.2 | to everybody that is nothing but helpful for the best and the brightest that humanity has to offer, motivating |
| 1:11.3 | innovations that make life more convenient, if not simply better. |
| 1:17.0 | After all, the particular brand of Silicon Valley capitalism has disrupted our lives in myriad ways from getting a ride to |
| 1:24.7 | grocery shopping to watching movies to bicycling to vacation rentals and |
| 1:28.8 | basically everything in between and the disruptors would argue each of those has been |
| 1:34.3 | improved upon by their wonderful apps. Their impact is seen as nothing but good as |
| 1:40.9 | long as their disruptions reap in millions if not billions in |
| 1:45.4 | profits for venture capitalists. In Palo Alto, home of Stanford University, the |
| 1:50.4 | consequences of those disruptions are far outside their bubble of what |
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