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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The wages are stagnating.
People are living in more and more precarious positions.
So that is why we in this book, we called it Muskism, because we wanted to force that comparison.
You know, what did Ford do?
How did Fordism stabilize society in a time of disruptive change?
And what, by contrast, is Musk failing to do, we think, in this present moment to kind of stabilize the disruptive effects of the technology that he's and his Silicon Valley class brethren are rolling out?
for kind of the silicon valley class so i'm assuming that's you know you could call it theism or you could call it you know altmanism zuckerbergism i'm sure it's been uh attempted right muskism is easier it's one syllable muskism does get auto-corrected to muslim in an uncomfortable way for me a lot when i'm trying to punch into my phone but sure
But now there is something that he does play a kind of a keystone role that actually isn't comparable to others.
Like we get the Peter Thiel question a fair amount.
And just in material terms, Musk made five times Peter Thiel's net worth just last year.
So he is, you know, far more wealthy.
So he's done it better.
He has managed to bring together, and there's another reason why he's helpful kind of pedagogically and representatively, to bring together kind of the material side of Silicon Valley actually do make stuff.
It's not just vaporware and social media platforms and ad sales.
Like he's actually did the hard work of assembling rockets, electric vehicles, satellites, and
now, you know, supercomputers in Memphis.
And he plays with that virtual layer of social media, meme creation, hype creation.
You can't understand him without both sides of that.
That's not necessarily true with every member of the Silicon Valley class.
So he's helpful to provide a kind of overview of the whole ensemble of how digital capitalism works in a way that really no one else is.
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