The New Tech Oligarchy w/ Gaby Del Valle

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

Silicon Valley, Books, Technology, Arts, Future, Tech Criticism, Socialism, Paris Marx, News, Criticism, Tech News, Politics

4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Gaby Del Valle to discuss the inauguration of Donald Trump and what the tech oligarchy hopes to get from their relationship with him. Gaby Del Valle is a policy reporter at The Verge and is working on a book on ecofascism that will be released by Bloomsbury in 2026. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon. The pod...

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0:00.0	I don't think that there's been a vibe shift.
0:01.7	I think the vibes were there.
0:03.2	They've been there for a long time.
0:05.3	They want deregulation.
0:06.8	They want to do whatever it is that they want to do.
0:09.5	And they found someone who will let them do that as long as they throw a ton of money at him. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us made in partnership with The Nation magazine.
0:34.6	I'm your host, Power Smart.
0:35.8	And this week my guest is Gabby Del Valle.
0:38.2	Gabby is a policy reporter at The Verge and is writing a book on Eco-Fascism that will be released by
0:42.6	Bloomsbury in 26. Now, the event that we have all been dreading has arrived. Donald Trump
0:48.2	has been inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States. And standing right behind him
0:53.5	as he was doing that inauguration, as he was making his speech, were some of the United States and standing right behind him as he was doing that inauguration,
0:55.2	as he was making his speech, were some of the richest people in the world.
0:59.7	Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, a lot of tech folks were attending
1:05.5	this inauguration to show their support for Donald Trump, for his MAGA movement,
1:11.2	and to make sure that their interests are aligned with the new extreme right-wing president
1:16.7	of the United States.
1:18.8	These are some of the most powerful people in the world working for their own interests,
1:22.7	regardless of the wider consequences.
1:25.8	They are showing that this tech industry was never about some kind of
1:29.0	like higher ideals or a better capitalism, but was always like any other industry trying to
1:35.3	enrich itself. And because these companies have become so large, because the people behind them
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