How the Stock Market Extracts Wealth
How the stock market extracts value from corporations and fuels the concentration of wealth.
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Corporate Artificial Intelligence: Can Investors Control a “Perfect Profit Machine”?
As corporations automate, might the artificial intelligence of a “perfect profit machine” simply decide to stop distributing profits to human owners?
You Are Not the Product: The Coming Revolution in Social Networks
It’s time to recognize that people are not the product and that end user contributions to social networks deserve to be compensated.
Your Second Job, as a Facebook User
Facebook users behave as though they had a second, part-time volunteer job – building the service. And that makes for happy shareholders.
Technology and the Distribution of Wealth
Technology plays two critical roles in the distribution of wealth, cutting jobs and income from below, while concentrating profits for investors from above.