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.
Dollars & Sense's September 15 event on Economic Justice and African American Communities was a big success. A large and lively crowd gathered at the Community Church of Boston for a participatory forum with anti-poverty organizer Diane Dujon, labor activist Bill Fletcher, and Boston city councillor Chuck Turner, in honor of D&S's own Chris Tilly.
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