Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Workers w/ Wendy Liu

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

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4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Wendy Liu to discuss what it was like to work in tech in the 2010s and why structural changes in the industry are empowering an increasingly reactionary capitalist class to strike back at workers and upend the expectations of the boom period. Wendy Liu is a writer and the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism. You can follow her on Twitter at @dellsystem. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, a...

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0:00.0	don't trust rich people, don't believe what they're saying about themselves, about their own
0:04.5	motives, but also what they're saying indirectly to you.
0:26.7	Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us. I'm your host, Paris Marks. And before we get to this week's episode and the fantastic returning guest that I have for you, I wanted to let you know
0:32.0	about something that we're doing on December 18th at 1 p.m. Pacific, 4 p.m. Eastern, and 9 p.m. GMT. We are having a live stream
0:41.0	with some friends of the show, Brian Merchant, Gita Jackson, and Chris Gileard, where we'll be
0:46.0	discussing the year in tech, you know, the wildest stories of the year, the worst CEOs, the
0:51.9	types of things that we'll be looking forward to in 2023, kind of rounding
0:56.4	up the year, and the things that we should be taking away from 2022, what happened in the tech
1:02.9	industry. And I think that it's going to be a really fun time. This is a live stream that's just
1:09.8	for supporters of the show. So if you're
1:11.7	supporting the show on patreon.com, you'll be able to access the link to join us for that live
1:16.9	stream where you'll be able to watch it live. You'll be able to ask us questions and, you know,
1:21.7	to see what our thoughts are on the tech industry. So that's this Sunday. So I hope that you'll join us. If you're not a supporter
1:29.2	of the show already, you can go to patreon.com slash tech won't save us, and I'll be sending out an
1:33.6	update with the information on how to join us before the live stream starts. And for those of you
1:39.0	who won't be able to join us, we will be releasing a recording of the live stream as the episode
1:44.1	on December 29th. So you can
1:45.8	stay tuned for that as well, but I highly recommend joining us live. Now with that said, my guest
1:51.7	this week is Wendy Liu. Wendy is the author of Abolished Silicon Valley, How to Liberate
1:56.3	Technology from Capitalism, and she was the first guest, On Tech Won Won't Save Us all the way back in April of
2:02.4	2020. I can't believe it's taken me this long to have her back on the show because she has so many
2:07.5	great insights about the tech industry and particularly from a labor perspective as someone who
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