Michael

“In Wired magazine, Antonio García Martínez describes the contemporary Silicon Valley as “feudalism with better marketing.” He sees a clear elite of venture capitalists and company founders. Below them are the skilled professionals, well paid but living ordinary middle-class lives, given the high prices and heavy taxes. Below them lies the vast population of gig workers, whom García Martínez compares to sharecroppers in the South. At the bottom, there is an untouchable class of homeless, drug addicts, and criminals.36”
― Joel Kotkin, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

“the first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“But what looked like a more diverse and open media world, where anyone could be a reporter or reach an audience, is turning into one where a very few companies control the information pipelines.”
― Joel Kotkin, The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

“One might think this scenario plays out only in high school or college, but the politics of friendship are tricky at every age.”
― Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept