The Biggest Digital Companies Are Decimating the Economy

Digital monopolies end up destroying the marketplaces they depend on

Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human
Published in
4 min readAug 13, 2020

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Growth was easy when there were new territories to conquer, resources to take, and people to exploit. Once those people and places started to push back, digital technology came to the rescue, providing virtual territory for capital’s expansion…

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Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human

Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human, Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast http://teamhuman.fm