Douglas Rushkoff Deconstructs the Digital Economy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 เม.ย. 2016
- Recorded March 30, 2016 at 92nd Street Y.
Digital technology was supposed to usher in a new age of endless prosperity, but so far it has been used to put industrial capitalism on steroids, with Internet startups selling for billions, but destroying more jobs than they create, extracting more cash from circulation than they put in, and disrupting entire marketplaces and neighborhoods in the process.
Douglas Rushkoff, the author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, will explain what went wrong, and how to optimize our economy for distributed prosperity instead of mindless growth.
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I am sad that under 1000 people have seen this. It should be required viewing for life.
Amen, brother.
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What a legend. A true Prophet for the 21st Century.
So many people are unwilling to talk about this. Thanks for giving voice to the issues.
Extraordinarily good. I'd recommend this to any business students out there. It's not only important to study capitalism, but how to criticize it. Because ultimately, business leaders will need to be more enlightened and take into account the environment, workers, community, and a democratic, representative government. Where else can the change come from?
From the workers, not likely from the business leaders.
No, trying to enlighten business leaders is pointless. If by, enlighten, you mean giving a shit about workers rights and health. If by enlighten you mean, extract and control. It's already done. The entire economic system we have to today was founded by monarchs in the middle ages, and it's working the way it's intend to. We need to create systems that don't depend on greedy, rich businessmen. Instead of trying to argue our rights and still depending on them, like some traumatized child. The children in this case, need to understand that mommy and daddy doesn't really care about you.
What a Fantastic breakdown explained in simple form. Agreed 100% thank you for sharing this video.
the abundance thing is something that has been in discussion for a while. For example: Starbucks, Hospitals, grocery stores get rid of food in mass. Food that is still good to eat. Instead of spreading it to the homeless, its just tossed because you cant give people food for free.. because then nobody will buy food( at least that's what they say )...
"the new surface area was just human attention- it was our waking consciousness that was colonized"
one of the sanest, brightest explanations of Our world's predicament I have personally listened to on UTUBE, it is sad that I only know a few people aware enough to benefit from, or even listen to this !
very powerful! We need to make a change before we suck out everything!
So I really enjoy everything this guy has done. Ive seen him on Big Think and watching this entire video in one session is one of the best things Ive done today. And I am a quite younger person, to give perspective Im under 18 and I am in love with writing and this connection it can give people. And I just want to say that I have hope. I have hope in bigger things to come, in this election that has been passing us today, we have had a man running that has been against these larger corporations and he has been extremely well for how many are against him and I just think Bernie really represents how the younger generation can really play a part in molding our communities and changing our future for the better. It seems to some that we have dug a hole that is just so deep we cannot see the sunlight that we first saw, but we have the power to change that, and we as a people, as a whole, as just the human race need to really think about what we have been doing, and where the internet is really taking our society into and how companies are buying smaller companies and expanding on unique ideas that they themselves havnt created, and just this mess we have been slurred into, WE CAN CHANGE IT.
We need to get out there, and start one step at a time, whilist still looking at the end goal. If we just slowly walk to the top of the staircase we will be at the top floor in no time. I as part of the youth of society hope to mask this optimism and change our world for the better, and I hope I spoke to someone reading this comment.
the elections are rigged by the big corporations you will enjoy Grunch of giants if you can get your hands on this book i bought mine on amazon its an eye opener and shows how nothing has really changed other the tec.
Why buy it from Amazon? Library Genesis has tons of books that you can rip for free. Fuck Amazon and all the other monopolies and oligarchs.
So where are you now?
Extremely great
You’re doing amazing work Douglas
What a shame this only has 15,294 views :\
Music to my ears
Highly recommended...
31:49 clearly define the relation of automation to poverty
this guy knows whats up
Bo Burnham brought me here
same
"Humans are not here to serve the market, the market is here to serve the humans." - If all of what he said was to boil down to only one of his own sentences.
Douglas Rushoff for President!!!!
too bad it is not going to happen :(
there is no choice, either this, either greatest depression of all human history.
Capitalism ended.
Big think brought me here. Go Douglas.
Really enjoyed the talk overall but that guy at the end though O_O
I hope +Bernie Sanders get to see this and read the book on his way to see the Pope.
@ 42:00 Because that fear makes them feel important. This is why many try to gain or retain wealth-to feel important. A safer world doesn't provide enough fear to get high on.
@56:00 Such a tremendous truth.
At around 10 minutes.... What could be some other authors to read ou watch about what Rushkoff was mention as to since Eisenhower people were worried where there were room for growth, "no more surface for corporate expansion... but technology can somehow create new surface area...".
0:55 when what was to come out?
He's a worrier.
Worker-owned! End slavery.
25:00 yeah
Really good talk all in all. One thing caught my attention though. He seemed to brush thru the side about human jobs, but simply that we can shift to a 3-4 day workweek. My question is...what jobs are necessary for humans to do that can't be automated by robots?
he speaks about this a lot more in more recent interviews/podcasts. (i’m obviously butchering the articulation here) It seems like he believes it is an error and consequence of the system that we believe humans are the sum of their utility value. there is something unspoken, something somewhat divine in the trust we need to have in others to not automate all of the utility human beings can create
so essentially, robots absolutely can replace any job we can do, and this is evidence to the argument that maybe we shouldn’t automate everything, instead maybe we should trust humans to create and do and etc.
Kyrie@ you're joking or really dumb? Can a robot play the piano, can a robot compose like Mozart? Can a robot dance like Michael Jackson? Can a robot help me learn Jiu Jitsu? No cause they can't do shit dumbass.
@1:18:48 watching this on my fp3+ ;)
The Technocrat Whisperer
selling digital media, be it books, music, etc etc .. has become the same as selling potatoes or milk ...
"If you want 500 million a quarter, then don't sell." If you don't sell eventually then how will you make any money? or does he simply mean don't have your intent be to make money?
As I understand, he means that people are standing between 2 options, either make lets say 10 millions at once selling the company or a million a year just by running it. And so he argues that if your intend is not making money but to actually do the thing you created, you should keep doing it and earn the money slowly by turning your concept into something good and dont lrt it get ruined by other people
The digital economy does not care about the industries it consumes, no Douglas is correct. It only cares about consumer satisfaction through using technology to increase efficiency and in many cases creating a new product where there was none before. The efficiency has disrupted many industries, but only because they offered a better product.
Mo Money Mo Problems
Didn't ya'll listen to Damon Wayans about that girl with a big butt and smile?
He never mentions the elephant in the room: Greed.
Yes he did. He said it was grow or be sold (die). The entire thing is about the endless need for growth for more money and how it really just ends up self consuming.
This guy is very amusing. Tragically he is spot on in his analysis; but he is nevertheless very amusing in the way he tells it...
team human ftw. a bad human interaction is still better than no human interaction.