Once we took those consequences away, Zuck did exactly what his nature dictated he must: destroyed our lives to increase his own fortune.

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If you want to learn more about the job guarantee, you can read my review of her book on the subject:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/22/jobs-guarantee/#job-guarantee

And the interview I did with her about it for the *LA Times*:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-06-24/forget-ubi-says-an-economist-its-time-for-universal-basic-jobs

Tcherneva and I are appearing onstage together next week in Lisbon at Web Summit to discuss this further:

https://websummit.com/sessions/lis25/2a479f57-a938-485a-acae-713ea9529292/working-it-out-job-security-in-the-ai-era/

And I assume that the video will thereafter be posted to Websummit's Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@websummit

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The authors have put up a website at veniac.com that promises educator guides and a Veniac simulator. These will doubtless serve as excellent companions to the book itself, but even without them, this is an incredible accomplishment.

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels

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And getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires that governments control their *own* behavior - unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if governments can control the behavior of companies that have proven, time and again, to be more powerful than any country in the world.

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