EPA testers, Amazon employees, Uber drivers, their customers, the people on the polluted streets: they are all the have-nots of the technologically augmented market, in that they never see the market at all. But it’s increasingly apparent that nobody at all sees what’s actually going on. Something deeply weird is occurring within the massively accelerated, utterly opaque markets of contemporary capital. While high-frequency traders deploy ever-faster algorithms to skim off multibillion-point differences, the dark pools are breeding even darker surprises.
