France’s Start-Up Nation Is a Neoliberal Hell w/ Nastasia Hadjadji

Paris Marx is joined by Nastasia Hadjadji to discuss Emmanuel Macron’s plan to run France like a start-up, how that justified a further dismantling of France's welfare state, and how his desire to create national tech champions is having domestic consequences.

Nastasia Hadjadji is a French journalist looking at tech from the lens of political economy and the author of “No Crypto. Comment Bitcoin a envoûté la planète.”

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.

Also mentioned in this episode:

• Paris will be speaking in Auckland • on February 18 in an event hosted by Tohatoha. • Emmanuel Macron aided Uber’s lobbying efforts • as Economy Minister under the former Socialist government. • France worked hard to attract • the crypto industry. Macron even took a selfie • with Binance’s Changpeng Zhao, who’s now pled guilty to felony charges. • The group Technopolice • documents police surveillance in France. La Quadrature du Net • campaigns against algorithmic video surveillance. • Louis Pouzin is considered to have almost created the internet • .

Support the show