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People Get Ready
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy | John Nichols, Robert McChesney
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The consequence of the technological revolution is about to hit hard: employment opportunities will collapse across the board as new technologies replace labor. Moribund capitalism and talk of market solutions won't answer this crisis. In this brave new world, the power of the people to demand a smarter and more humane economic and environmental policy will be diminished as fear trumps reason and surrender replaces hope. Unless the tremendous benefits of technological progress are employed to serve the whole of humanity, rather than to enrich a handful of monopolists, the social contract will not be underminedit will be broken. Americans cannot let corporate CEOs and billionaire campaign donors define their future. People Get Ready reveals that the choices made in the next few years will decide not just how technology is utilized and how economies are organized, but whether democracy will cease to function in any meaningful sense. This book, by two of America's leading champions of Net Neutrality and efforts to close the digital divide, links an urgent call for action with an outline of what must be done to move from crisis to hope. John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney argue that the United States needs a new economy in which the benefits of revolutionary technologies are shared by everyone, applied to effectively address environmental and social problems, and used to rejuvenate and extend democratic institutions and practices. Traveling the world, meeting with top innovators in the tech industry, and moving from the cloistered confines of Googles Mountain View complex in California to the city streets where fast-food workers march for a living wage, the authors chronicle the effects of the tech revolution on the ground and in real time. With fearless analysis and their typically clairvoyant predictive powers, they propose a bold strategy for fighting back and democratizing our digital destinybefore its too late.
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aperfectmjk
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I purchased some random children's Christmas books (excuse the photos, they're not mine). Look out Winter Games, here I come! #WinterGames2020

@StayCurious @Clwojick

Clwojick 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 3y
Clwojick The Grinch and Corduroy ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ 3y
aperfectmjk @Clwojick I bought that lot specifically for Corduroy and The Care Bears! I already own The Grinch, but that's okay because I have a friend who has been wanting it. The other lot has The Polar Express so I'm excited about that. 3y
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aperfectmjk @Clwojick oh wait.. Polar Express is in the same lot. It's Clifford that attracted me to the other one. 😆 3y
witchyreader13 @aperfectmjk I loved Clifford when I was a kid. 😊 3y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick I'm planning on raiding my niece's bookshelves once again! 3y
aperfectmjk @Clwojick so guess what? One of my packages arrived today, and The Grinch wasn't included with the purchase after all. Even though it's pictured in the group shot, it's not shown in the individual pictures, nor in the auction description. A bit disappointing because even though I own a copy I was going to give it to friend. 🥺 3y
Clwojick Darn! It‘s a Christmas classic. Everyone needs a copy! 3y
aperfectmjk @StayCurious here's another Dec. TBR #readnosedreindeer. 3y
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CaliforniaCay
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Are you other #litsylove littens ready for the #winterswap?
1) Yes
2) Bookmarks, book related POPs, anything HP, Lotr, GOT related
3) Postcards, pens, post its, stickers, bumper stickers
4) anything coffee flavored, also peanut m&ms, reese's cups or pieces, any kind of chocolate really

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🎉🎉🎉 5y
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Kristy_K
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I‘m so excited for the #24in48 readathon this weekend! Even though I have a few prior engagements I can‘t get out of, I‘m going to try really hard to finish.

Here‘s my tentative, overly ambitious stack.

#tbr #readathon #bookstack

saresmoore Overly ambitious stacks are the best kinds! 6y
Kristy_K @saresmoore I totally agree! 😊 6y
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