The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis
Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.
On December 20, 2024, D&S co-editor Chris Sturr interviewed journalist and photographer David Bacon about his contribution to our 50th-anniversary roundtable in the November/December 2024 issue, "Full Immigrant Rights in 50 Years?" This segment was part of the December 26th episode of Economics for the People on KKFI in Kansas City.