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Wendy’s 2025 Year in Books
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Wendy Liu
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Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
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My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics:
"For decades, New York City had run a generous municipal welfare system that marked the left-most edge of New Deal politics. In addition to fire and police departments, to public schools and public transportation, the city ran a network of child care "
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"Very good indeed but I would have appreciated a paragraph outlining that all the nice things pre-fiscal crisis New York had - which they had to be stripped of by a bankers' coup - were and are the norm in most other rich countries."
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“Creating derivative software to help brands better understand their customers seemed like a poor use of my limited time on this burning planet.”
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
“Our current understanding of entrepreneurship is deeply saturated in power-hungry capitalist greed, leading to undemocratic control of the technological infrastructure that underpins our lives — not to mention massively wasteful economic inequality. Whatever merits the existing system of private entrepreneurship may have had, we’re now brushing up against its limits, and it’s time to consider something new.”
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
“But I also believe that technology has greater potential than the mundane, profit-seeking ventures to which it has been relegated under the current system.”
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
― Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism
“Higher taxes to bring down public debt would also put to rest the tawdry rhetoric according to which ‘we’ should not live at the expense of ‘our children’ – when the real problem is that the ‘better-off’ live at everyone else’s expense by largely avoiding the social costs involved in the upkeep of their hunting grounds.”
― Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
― Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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