Tech giants and solving climate change and social inequality


The Magnificent Seven tech stocks represent the cutting edge of raw capitalist drive for value, speculation and state intervention. — Reuters

The Kennedy era guru on capitalism, John Kenneth Galbraith, presciently proclaimed in The New Industrial State (1967) that “the Imperatives of technology and organisation, not the images of ideology, are what determine the shape of economic society”.

The cacophony of ideology, including religious fervour, is what is killing people in Ukraine, Gaza and other warring states.

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