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fromenglish.elpais.com
6 days ago

The new robber barons are the tech tycoons

19th-century American magnates built monopolies through exploitative labor practices, paralleling modern tech billionaires' consolidation strategies and raising concerns about concentrated economic power.
from48 hills
1 month ago

The Super Bowl, labor, and economic inequality - 48 hills

San Francisco sits at the center of the wealth inequality gripping the country, a place where fortunes scale at historic speed while the gap between those who produce value and those who capture it continues to widen. As I reflect on my own NFL career and life playing the game that will light up screens for more than 100 million Americans this weekend,
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fromBusiness Insider
3 months ago

The AI bubble debate is slowly making its way to Washington

Are we in the middle of an AI bubble? Ask a lawmaker, and they probably won't have a definitive take for you. "If I knew that, I'd be in a different line of work," Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat who represents much of Silicon Valley, told Business Insider. The AI bubble debate has been raging in the tech world since August, when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that investors had grown "overexcited" about the technology.
US politics
US politics
fromHarvard Gazette
4 months ago

Shielding Americans from corporate 'tyranny' - Harvard Gazette

Antitrust enforcement checks concentrated economic power, preventing corporate-driven economic tyranny and protecting freedom through regulatory measures analogous to constitutional checks.
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