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How Big Tech Is DESTROYING the Economy
When I started The Occasional Learner’s Book Club on Substack, I wanted to put a focus on books that help ordinary people “learn more about the way the world works and how systems of power direct the lives of ordinary people.” For the first entry, we read Tim Wu’s ‘The Age of Extraction.’
Wu is a law professor at Columbia University. He worked on antitrust in both the Obama and Biden administrations and is also the author of numerous books. His latest work argues tech companies have made once useful platforms into engines of gobsmacking wealth extraction. Giants like Google, Amazon and Apple…
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