3 Articles by: Edward Ongweso Jr
Edward Ongweso Jr is a labor and technology reporter at Motherboard and host of the This Machine Kills podcast.
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Crypto Is Making Everything Worse
There’s lots of breathless chatter out there about how cryptocurrency will reshape the world. But the truth about crypto is simple: capitalists are using it to get rich and screw the rest of us.
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The Gamestop Affair Is Just the Latest Incarnation of the “People’s Capitalism” Delusion
The Robinhood trading app is an attempt to commercialize a powerful but thoroughly fictional myth: that finance can be democratized while ownership and control remain in the hands of powerful capitalists.