Progressive Capitalism

How to Make Tech Work for All of Us

By: Ro Khanna

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary, “progressive” (James J. Heckman, Nobel Prize winner and professor of economics at the University of Chicago) roadmap to facing America’s digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all. In Khanna’s vision, “just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people” (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics) where “Khanna envisions redistributing opportunities from coastal cities to rural middle-America…An exciting vision, brilliantly rendered.” (Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of Strangers in Their Own Land).

Unequal access to technology and the revenue it creates is one of the most pressing issues in the United States. An economic gulf exists between those who have struck gold in the tech industry and those left behind by the digital revolution; a geographic divide between those in the coastal tech industry and those in the heartland whose jobs have been automated; and existing inequalities in the technological access—students without computers, rural workers with spotty WiFi, and many workers without the luxury to work remotely.

Congressman Ro Khanna’s Progressive Capitalism tackles these challenges head-on and imagines how the digital economy can create opportunities for people across the country without uprooting them. Anchored by an approach Khanna calls “progressive capitalism,” he shows how democratizing access to tech can strengthen every sector of economy and culture. By expanding technological jobs nationwide through public and private partnerships, we can close the wealth gap in America and begin to repair the fractured, distrusting relationships that have plagued our country for fall too long.

Inspired by his own story born into an immigrant family, Khanna understands how economic opportunity can change the course of a person’s life. Moving deftly between storytelling, policy, and some of the country’s greatest thinkers in political philosophy and economics, Khanna presents a vision we can’t afford to ignore. Progressive Capitalism is a “practical and aspirational” (Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at UCLA and Columbia University) roadmap to how we can seek dignity for every American in an era in which technology shapes every aspect of our lives.

Understanding the Role of Technology in Bringing Us Together or Tearing Us Apart

Representative Khanna recognizes that Americans need to unite by finally realizing that we are all members of one big family. He is the leader who can bring us together. He is on the right track but might want to integrate the ideas in the Cambridge University Press book “Investing in Innovation: Confronting Predatory Value Extraction in U.S. Corporations” by William Lazonick. Representative Khanna might also want to consider the U.S. distorted money flow problem as revealed in the short YouTube video at https://optimal-money-flow.website which proposes that Congress reissue The Postal Savings Act of 1910 to allow the Federal Reserve to be much more efficient and effective in stopping inflation quickly without causing a recession. I am looking forward to his next audiobook to continue guiding us to a better America and a better world.

the content , the references to cases and all other relevant info

once again the content and the platform Rho Khanna laid out was relatable and clear to me. you know where he stands but the narrator was not engaging. I will have to re-listen .

great ideas, but pointed the finger much.

wonderfully articulated. Amazing ideas. pointed to problems on the right. without highlighting problems on the left. both sides are extremely flawed and need to admit for us to come together for these great ideas

Making Digital Tech Serve All

In this book, Ro Khanna articulates what true progressivism should look like. While promoting dignity and equitable opportunity for persons from all walks of life the default posture is communication and problem solving, without paternalism—from any quarter.

Khanna confronts head on the monopolistic behaviors of big tech, and the concentration of jobs in major metropolitan areas. The author does this by demonstrating that such concentration and its resultant exclusion of large portions of the population is both unnecessary and unjustified.

Remote work has already enabled the diffusion of tasks that once required everyone to work in close proximity. Physical tasks also are spreading to places in the flyover states where it was previously impractical locate them. This book skillfully and credibly encourages this trend.

Our current employment culture is wrong to filter humanity down to just human capital. Every human is a whole person—that's a feature not a bug. Everyone would be better off with the implementation of Khanna's legislative and practical recommendations—it's a plan worth following.

political rant

not at allinformatve. like reading a stump speach. worst pook I've done ✅ n 15 yrs. Buyer beware. listen to an excerpt.YMMV.