Quinn Slobodian
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708 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Quinn Slobodian’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Wait, I didn't know they had a switch.
I mean, in some cases they literally do, right?
I mean, the most famous example of this with Musk is, of course, the battlefield in Ukraine, which relies heavily on Starlink.
And they were trying to do a push into Kherson province and Crimea.
And he just said, no, I don't think so.
I'm worried about the risk.
Click.
Suddenly they're offline.
So that's a dramatic example, but you can think of a lot of ways that that actually cascades down into everyday life too.
Yeah.
No, I mean, I think that's a really helpful way to look at it.
Because if you think about earlier moments, let's say the moment of industrial capitalism and manufacturing when the economy of the United States was based on people having long-term employment at, let's say, auto factories putting together cars.
Now, that's actually often called Fordism.
So there you have exactly as you're saying the kind of two potentially battling imperatives.
One is that of the capitalist, which is just like, I want to make as much money as possible.
I want to sweat my workers as much as possible.
I want to boost my sales and my profitability as much as possible.
Yeah.
And it's increasing productivity and efficiency or getting more of these cars out the door because of the moving assembly line.
So you've got that.
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