Taming the tech giants

• large structural transformations required
• hidden problem is: accumulated power and lopsided economy
• they have too much power
• they are solely profit-driven
• difficult to tax them as they shift immaterial assets

"If, as David Harvey says, we can think of neoliberalism as a class project, then Silicon Valley, is, in a way, the industrial manifestation of neoliberalism applied to technology. It's the digital embodiment of neoliberal governance and ideology. Which means that Silicon Valley, too, is fundamentally a class project."

"Tackling the problem at the root requires that we abolish Silicon Valley."

• Ad-based companies are compliciti - they get a cut in the commodities

"If Silicon Valley is a class project, then tackling it - abolishing it - means changing the balance of class forces, tipping it away from capital and in favour of labour."

• change conception of what a 'tech worker' is
• worldwide labour movements, worker organisation from below
• start taking lucrative technologies out of the capital-accumulation process