Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor — The Digital Poorhouse
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Virginia Eubanks
This episode explores Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks as a systems-level analysis of how automated welfare systems, predictive algorithms, and data infrastructure influence behavior, belief, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persist — and how they connect to larger economic, political, and cultural structures.
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