Yeah, it's hilarious in a way, but it also continues to be really gross.

And you know, you wonder, like, how long can they keep getting away with it?

But they do because tech is still broadly admired in a lot of ways.

And they're still rarely asked, like, how are you actually improving people's lives?

Like, how you actually contributing to the public good?

Yeah. Good. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Jacob

Silverman. Jacob is back. You know, he's been on the show a couple of times before to talk about

the crypto industry, but this time we're talking about something a little different. Just to remind

you, if you don't remember, Jacob is the co-author of easy money, cryptocurrency, casino capitalism,

and the Golden Age of Fraud with Ben McKenzie. That will be

out July of 2023 next year. It's available for pre-order now. And let me tell you, this is going to be

the crypto book. So I highly recommend going and pre-ordering a copy, or at least knowing that it's

coming soon. So you can be ready for it when it does come out. Jacob is also a journalist who writes for The New Republic, Slate, the Baffler, and plenty of

other publications.

Now, recently, he's written a couple of articles on Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition and

David Sacks and the growing kind of right-wing politics of many of these tech billionaires who

are influenced by Peter Thiel associated with him, and the kind of politics-wing politics of many of these tech billionaires who are influenced by Peter

Teal associated with him and the kind of politics that they are putting out into the world.

So since the U.S. midterm elections are happening next week, I thought that this would be a good

moment to have this conversation about the politics of these tech billionaires, of Elon Musk

as he's acquiring Twitter, but also of many of these other billionaires, you know, of Elon Musk as he's acquiring Twitter,

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