How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism by Cédric Durand
The New Economy never arrived, instead we have regressed towards darker times. Have we already entered the age of techno-feudalism? …
This was a brilliant read on the folly of "green growth". Saito does an amazing job at collating the evidence for why trying to implement any "green growth" is bound to fail and how capitalism would subsume those efforts. He also does a great job at providing a potential alternative model - degrowth communism - that could help us overcome those barriers.
These efforts center around re-building the commons, both in the local, environmental sense (e.g. land water) but also the communal, local ownership (of infrastructures) and how co-operative ownership of the commons can bring about those changes. A worthy read to think about how we can collectively act at avoiding even worse-case scenarios in the future.
The one thing that somewhat negatively stood out to me: I get that it's not "just" a collection of evidence but a manifesto, but I was nevertheless surprised how little room Ostrom's work …
