“Big Tech’s business model is based principally on data collection and advertising, which means devising ways to manipulate individuals to change their behavior—and then selling that opportunity at manipulation to big corporations. The result? An addiction economy designed to keep us online as much as possible, as long as possible, to sell us more and more stuff and collect more and more information.” PoliticsBusinessEconomyRightsInformationAddictionJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig Tech Author:Josh Hawley
“The new monopolies brought bulging profits without all that desperate competitive struggle. The capitalists were certain they had unlocked the secret of the industrial age. This was what the new economy, the new country, required, they decided: enlightened management and control, by persons such as themselves.” PoliticsHistoryEconomyElitismCorporatismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechMonopoliesIndustrial Age Author:Josh Hawley
“Big Tech was the culmination of the corporate liberal ideology and the globalized economy it envisioned. This was an economy that by the early twenty-first century depended less and less on producing anything tangible, or on producers themselves, for that matter, but lavished ever greater rewards on the rarified, highly educated, largely urban technologist class.” PowerEconomyCorruptionControlGlobalizationElitismJosh HawleyThe Tyranny Of Big TechBig Tech Author:Josh Hawley