The Zero Marginal Cost Society — Technology, Abundance, and the Limits of Markets (Audio)
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world — one book at a time.
This episode explores The Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin as a systems-level analysis of how near-zero marginal costs challenge the foundations of market-based capitalism.
By focusing on infrastructure rather than ideology, the book explains how digital networks, automation, and renewable energy weaken scarcity-based pricing while enabling new forms of cooperation and access — reshaping work, value, and economic organization.
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