Summary of Ro Khanna's Dignity in a Digital Age

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 When you are unemployed, it can be even more stressful than physical trauma. You worry constantly about your family and your future, and you never know when you will lose everything.
#2 The digital economy can create opportunities for people where they live instead of uprooting them. We must uplift service workers who face economic precarity, and we must make the high-tech revolution work for everyone instead of just certain Silicon Valley leaders who commodified our data while amassing fortunes.
#3 My story is different from Alex Hughes’s. I grew up in a community in Pennsylvania that was economically mixed. We were comfortable and never lacked for anything meaningful, but we were not rich.
#4 I was elected to represent Silicon Valley, which is home to many high-growth companies. I still love going back to Bucks County to visit my parents, especially with my wife and kids.

Sujets

• Love
• Love (disambiguation)
• Development
• Economic development

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669356011
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Ro Khanna's Dignity in a Digital Age
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When you are unemployed, it can be even more stressful than physical trauma. You worry constantly about your family and your future, and you never know when you will lose everything.

#2

The digital economy can create opportunities for people where they live instead of uprooting them. We must uplift service workers who face economic precarity, and we must make the high-tech revolution work for everyone instead of just certain Silicon Valley leaders who commodified our data while amassing fortunes.

#3

My story is different from Alex Hughes’s. I grew up in a community in Pennsylvania that was economically mixed. We were comfortable and never lacked for anything meaningful, but we were not rich.

#4

I was elected to represent Silicon Valley, which is home to many high-growth companies. I still love going back to Bucks County to visit my parents, especially with my wife and kids.

#5

Despite all this, many leaders seem to suffer from the same blind spot: that place matters. While GDP and production have skyrocketed, too many American towns have hollowed out and local factories have closed.

#6

Americans’ sense of fulfillment is tied to where they live. Thus, national policymakers have largely ignored the destabilization of local communities. They have overlooked the fact that people do not simply want to be taken care of; they want to be agents of their own lives and productive members of society.

#7

Decentralizing tech can allow more Americans to stay rooted in their communities. They can attend their hometown church or synagogue, share meals with family and friends, read the local paper even if it’s online, and support traditional industries and workers.

#8

The central aspiration of this book is to reduce some of the bitterness within our nation. I believe that increasing connectivity and digital opportunities for left-behind Americans can reduce the divisness and dysfunction of our contemporary democracy.

#9

Many Americans are wary of the change that digital jobs may bring. They worry that a significant tech footprint could lead to more gadgets and sensors running their life and more isolation.

#10

There are limits to how much reimagining the digital economy can address polarization, resentment, and social alienation. But what jobs can do is give more Americans pride in restoring their communities with many important customs intact and respect as breadwinners in their families.

#11

The digital economy has brought dangers, such as surveillance, vitriol, censorship, exclusion, and the proliferation of misinformation. We must create digital institutions that better link citizens to governance.

#12

The final part of the book is dedicated to the question of how to expand technology-driven opportunities to the people and places who have been left out of the first wave of the digital revolution. I examine the experiences of rural areas, which are not trying to become tech utopias, but want to use tech to revitalize their local economy in the industries of their choosing.

#13

The framework of progressive capitalism is based on the capabilities approach developed by Sen and Nussbaum. It believes that our society has a responsibility to develop the intrinsic capabilities of every person to lead the life they envision, and it provides avenues for them to exercise their talents.

#14

Silicon Valley has not only left many Americans out of wealth generation, but certain tech companies have made profits by commoditizing them and extracting their data. We need to ask what reforms are necessary to ensure that the digital economy does not infringe on our standing as free citizens or erode our democracy.

#15

The role of technology on foreign policy is the focus of chapter 9. The digital age has shown that technology can be used to combat repressive regimes, but it can also be used to entrench state surveillance, censorship, and authoritarianism.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

While the training program has had some success stories, it is not universal. For example, of the 49 initial trainees in Interapt’s inaugural training class, 35 completed the program, 25 received offers, and 19 accepted positions at the company.

#2

Arnett believes that technology is the economy, and that rural communities should embrace it. He believes that strengthening entrepreneurial education, improving network density for entrepreneurs, and providing private sector training is the way to go.

#3

The internet has allowed companies to separate high- and low-value activities, which has led to increased geographical inequality. While it is possible to move to where the jobs are, Americans are not migrating from low-income to high-income areas.

#4

The tech sector is a large part of the American economy, and it is important that we have people in these jobs. But not everyone should need to work in tech.

#5

The digital economy is comparable to manufacturing in terms of contribution to GDP, but it is more geographically clustered than manufacturing. The tech multiplier, which is the contribution of tech jobs to other sectors, is the largest of all.

#6

Rural America and midsize cities have more potential to create the jobs of the future than declining regions in other parts of the world, such as East Germany or Southern Italy.

#7

After years of growing economic concentration, the 2020s saw a reversal. The innovation economy opened up the possibility of tech decentralization, which allowed companies to hire remote workers who were still productive.

#8

The recent decentralization does not make Moretti’s and Krugman’s insights about agglomeration less relevant. It simply means that local communities will see incoming tech talent who will be Moretti multipliers, serving as angel investors, catalysts for new start-ups, and science and technology leaders.

#9

After the pandemic, the pendulum may swing back to value common space. But that won’t fully erase the lessons that a successful year of working remotely has revealed.

#10

Virtual teams, where people participate from the comfort of their home, promote contact under conditions of relative equality and reduce prejudice. However, they also face the challenge of integration, trust, and inclusion.

#11

Today, applied technology jobs can thrive in small towns and rural areas that are much more affordable than big cities. However, rural communities are demographically older, and they are seeing the flight of their younger population, leaving a smaller pool to develop as a tech anchor.

#12

Some towns will need to focus on training local residents in tech jobs, while others can focus on building technology infrastructure. This will help create hybrid approaches to remote work where employees can work from home but still drive to the office a few days a week.

#13