Paris Marx is joined by Nastasia Hadjadji to discuss Emmanuel Macron’s plan to run France like a start-up, how that justified a further dismantling of France's welfare state, and how his desire to create national tech champions is having domestic consequences.
Nastasia Hadjadji is a French journalist looking at tech from the lens of political economy and the author of “No Crypto. Comment Bitcoin a envoûté la planète (www.editionsdivergences.com/l...) .”
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon ( / techwontsaveus ) .
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.
Also mentioned in this episode:
• Paris will be speaking in Auckland (www.tohatoha.org.nz/2024/02/e...) on February 18 in an event hosted by Tohatoha.
• Emmanuel Macron aided Uber’s lobbying efforts (www.theguardian.com/news/2022...) as Economy Minister under the former Socialist government.
• France worked hard to attract (www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...) the crypto industry. Macron even took a selfie ( / 1546604812766158853 ) with Binance’s Changpeng Zhao, who’s now pled guilty to felony charges.
• The group Technopolice (technopolice.fr) documents police surveillance in France.
• La Quadrature du Net (www.laquadrature.net) campaigns against algorithmic video surveillance.
• Louis Pouzin is considered to have almost created the internet (www.lemonde.fr/technologies/a...) .
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