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Deb Chachra: How Infrastructure Works (AudiobookFormat, Penguin Audio) 5 stars

A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …

Ch5 Public infra supplies survival goods, not luxury. Discussion of public goods. Challenge of calculating economic value. Money provides agency at individual level. Public infra provides agency at collective – infra increases EQUITY. Most tech is sold as liberatory, but infra really is! When infra → util and can be taken for granted, it becomes a political right. Infra is a political choice.