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“capitalism should not be eaten raw. Capitalism, like sausage, is meant to be cooked by a democratic society and its institutions because raw capitalism is antisocial. As Piketty warns, “A market economy… if left to itself… contains powerful forces of divergence, which are potentially threatening to democratic societies and to the values of social justice on which they are based.”54

Lendo o primeiro capítulo

“The evidence and reasoning employed here suggest that surveillance capitalism is a rogue force driven by novel economic imperatives that disregard social norms and nullify the elemental rights associated with individual autonomy that are essential to the very possibility of a democratic society.”12

Just doesn’t end, and by part three it’s getting a little repetitious. I appreciate that, as a professor who is trying to excerpt carefully, because the different sections rehearse older arguments to help link up to the earlier content. But as a reader I’m like….yes…we already covered google’s discovery of info surplus…and pokemon go….