A History of California, Capitalism, and the World: Malcolm Harris on New Book “Palo Alto”
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- We speak with author Malcolm Harris about his new book, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, in which he writes how his hometown in the heart of Silicon Valley and home to many tech billionaires has helped to reshape the economy by exporting its brand of capitalism to the rest of the United States and around the world. “It’s important to see the internet and its history as this relation between capital and the government,” says Harris in a wide-ranging interview.
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What a remarkable writer Malcolm Harris is. Knowing our history here in America of big tech and corporate powers, even Leland Stanford.
Great interview Amy with this young man.
The guy doesn’t really make much of an argument. He just takes every negative aspect of Palo Alto and throws it into the conversation. The interviewer thinks that tossing up softballs for the interviewee makes a good interview. So sad.
@Short-legged turtle
What? We can agree to disagree about this. This young man has it down pact.
@@short-leggedturtle1315 relax, when you have an author as a guest, its not to grill him on live tv
I live in Seattle, and I hope someone someday does this kind of book in regards to Amazon’s affect on us. It changed the culture, livability, and personality of our city DRAMATICALLY.
Shouldn't Microsoft be included in the study?
It used to be a really affordable laid back city about the size of Portland that was filled with local shops and restaurants and had a great music scene. Now it's a sprawling, trendy, overpriced city filled with high end retailers and electric cars and Apple stores and densely-packed, cheaply made, mid rise apartment buildings that are all designed with the same Ikea-tier aesthetic - which don't get me wrong looks very clean and modern when well-executed, but it gets very boring after awhile. All the laid back hippies left, and they've been replaced with status-seeking, upwardly mobile, highly educated yuppie tech bro types. It went from Hippie Socialists --> Neoliberal Tech Bro Yuppies over the last 20 years. Too much over priced trendy yuppie food too. E.g., I don't think most of the burger joints in Seattle even sell normal hamburgers anymore, other than Dicks. It's all some kind of "artisan" brioche bun avocado aioli cheeseburger for $20 made by some underpaid employee who probably has like a masters degree, but they can't use it in Seattle because all the professional jobs are for tech bros and "engineers" with STEM backgrounds.
Become the change
ie, Silicon Valley took over Seattle, too.
I was just thinking the same thing! Somebody needs to write a book for WA.
This kid knows what he's talking about. His information in this piece is spot on and what many of us who live in the area know is correct. i will go ahead and purchase the young mr. harris' book post haste.
Kudos to Democracy Now for this specific piece. THIS, here, is the DN I remember and what gave me hope for my country and it's political ideals. Amy's line of questioning is intuitive, incisive and drew out the necessary detail to give us a clear sense of this author and his work. This is typical Amy Goodman brilliance.
i miss that version of DN. I wish it would show more often.
Thank you Ms. Goodman and Democracy Now for this interview with Mr. Harris.
I’m from there. The tech industry moved in with zero regard for locals, historically black communities etc. From Valley of the Heart’s Delight to a valley of toxic waste. Normal working people have all left. Santa Cruz and Monterey bay are next as the tech money goes outward. Displacing essential workers, displacing locals, driving up costs etc etc. Prop 13 used to help people stay in homes, now it strongly favors the 1%.
my family moved out of the bay area in the 80s and had we not sold those homes, we'd have been instant millionaires for absolutely no reason except location of the homes in proximity to the big tech centers. And now the family is impoverished because we moved to rural towns with few jobs and left the tech industry instead of joining them.
one of the saddest things is to drive back and forth from the Palo Alto area on the
rich side of the bay to San Leandro/Hayward on the other side and the difference in class and ... everything. like how the train stations near Stanford look like a dream world made for rich people. everyone is biking for enjoyment, not necessity. the tents are mainly on the east bay side. so much inequality in the richest places on earth.
One of my first experiences after arriving to Stanford in 2002 was simply riding a bike from Stanford to East Palo Alto. In merely 4 miles the difference was shocking.
Thank you for featuring him
I grew up in palo alto, I remeber when the city hired people to sit at rail crossings all day to make sure people didn't kill themselves, it is really a quite grotesque place when you take off your glasses of normalizations, and look plainly at the state of things. Mass inequality, load bearing non- negotiable poverty, and absolute contempt for those in that state by the very people whose selfishness dooms them to live in the poverty.
I see so many people who are clearly in need of help and healthcare on the streets, and we seems so ideologically callous that we spend more money to keep them in that state than simply housing and healing them. Look it up, it costs more to be cruel in this instance.
You can't do anything if you don't have a car, everywhere you look is natural beauty jarringly bisected by sprawling incoherent suburban sprawl so carelessly spreading out and wasting space, its repugnant, and the liberal hypocrisy. So many feign progressive values but when it comes to put their money, vote, or time to the test, their values fade away and they will support any evil as long as it raises their real estate value.
I could go on forever, it is truly the embodiment of what is wrong with America and capitalism.
Sad, but true. One of the huge downfalls of being a two party system is having to caucus with those "liberals" in the hopes of getting anything remotely resembling progress or for "We the people" done. Even then the compromises worked out often dilute the actual benefits. It's been disappointing to see just how much selfishness and greed have possessed people in this country.
@@erinmcdonald7781 liberals don't have pro-human values.
More than a hundred years ago.... Try 150 yrs. It was a nice town until c.1976 when the fern bars and Berkinstock crowd arrived. I was at High and University, "The Poppycock", c.1969. We lived on the 3rd floor for $50 month. Ed McClanahan was on the 2nd floor and paid $25month. We did the light shows and managed Poppycock. John Darcy did the bookings and Lighning Hopkins, Earl Hooker, Magic Sam, Dan Hicks, Mose Allison and Many more played.... You'll never see That Palo Alto again.
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Great interview, Amy! More of this please.
Thank you Democracy Now! You keep me informed and if I need to find a topic that is important, you are there. Grateful for your service to journalism.
Do people notice just how great Amy Goodman in terms of interview prep?
Haha this is sarcasm right?
Great interview... 100,000 tech workers laid off in one year in the US, almost unfathomable. And indeed the stock prices have benefitted per that "signal" of control Malcolm Harris spoke of.
100,000 new jobless people are created.
Great Job Amy Democracy Now!
I find their mis representation of the Ukraine war to be more notable..
I was born and raised in Palo Alto under the umbrella of Stanford. What was once a quaint albeit well to do town was ruined by big tech and the millionaires/billionaires. Most of us raised there can't afford to live there, our hometown no longer existing as we knew it. It makes me mad. It was a beautiful place to grow up and being in the shadow of Stanford added extra benefits. We'd ride out bikes and roller skate everywhere, were exposed to alot of culture and diversity because of Stanford and enjoyed all the amenities and safety of a small town. Now it's overgrown, overrun with mcmansions and wealthy infiltrates. It's sad and maddening. Who doesn't want to be able to return to their ancestral hometown. Now I feel disconnected and dislocated. It makes me mad.
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Hello from Ireland!So sorry to hear that the idyllic Palo Alto of your childhood ,you so wistfully describe above, is no more due to the narcissistic and greedy tech bros ruining the whole character of this beautiful town
👏🏽THERE IS A LOT OF BEAUTY IN WHAT YOU’VE SAID 😢🍂💔❣️
These are things people thought about woodland hills after awhile .. our parents help build the commerce community and people took pride in ..then people moved in from Asia and Muslim countries and bought up family estates in that suburban area. It's something men spoke about feeling disconnected by a suburb they help build or had businesses around
@@celesasheldon6931 Many countries just exist to produce future US citizens. You can't have a stable country or culture when you import millions of new citizens every year.
Ironically the Martin Luther King Jr. papers are housed at Stanford University, also one of the first research institutions to offers free or reduced tuition education based on income.
you revealed their secret
I’m surprised that Mexican Ancestry, which is central to California, is not mentioned in the interview. I’m not specifically informed about Palo Alto, but certainly there is a reason to be in Spanish.
The Mexicans probably respected the fact that these were Native American burial grounds and never actually decided to settle over the region.
It makes sense, thanks.
@@muchomacho79 lol
This was a fascinating interview! I can’t wait to read the book
Michael Harris God bless you, you are out here doing Gods work. Thank you 🙏🏾
My goodness this is some of the best reporting ever on Big Tech and Silicon Valley. I need to read this book!
John Ashcroft! I remember a headline in The Onion: "John Ashcroft's blood donation burns through bag"!
Wanted to hear more about the Black Panthers. Was a great interview.
how wonderful to see a young investigative writer bring to light the true history of his world. But now the real question, " what does this mean for me and the reason I / we are here on this earth?" Do you believe in the Law of Cause and Effect , if so, how does this history impact our lives today? Remember today is a result of yesterday. What is happening today and all the man-made and natural catastrophies occurs because of our actions yesterday. Evvery single soul (human and animal ) comes from our almighty, so respectt and love everry creature on earth. We need to remember who we are and that we are here dealing with this world situation because of our past actions.
Agreed- In addition, how an awareness of the law of moral consequence might help to reduce inhumanity and destruction .
2:08 1870s railroad workers protest at the posh Nob Hill home of Leland Stanford, who flees the area. 8:56 Teen suicides on train tracks, Apple Foxconn plant suicides. 9:53 Stanford Eugenics. 11:45 Black Panthers, anti-colonial revolt.
Thank you! 🍀✌️😎
Nice to hear 'TRUE HISTORY' of California! ~Peace-Paz C/S~
The alternative derogatory name for Palo Alto is Shallow Alto
The place turned into a Rodeo Drive type place but was a pleasant grow up
Looking polished tonight Amy- love that jacket!
WOW. Good work, Malcolm. Thank you Amy.
Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, Electric Kool Aid Acid tests are all from Palo Alto too.
(~);}
Irrevelant, fringe personalities, who'll be quickly forgotten as this self-centeted generation of boomers plunge to their dirt naps.
Didn't know that. That is very interesting.
@@paulheydarian1281 Know our love will not fade away!
Jerry lived in Marin County!
THIS WAS AN ABSOLUTELY AWSOME INTERVIEW 👏🏽🍂VERY GOOD QUESTIONS N INTELLIGENT, EASY ANSWERS 👍🏽💗
Great interview!!
The 18 Treaties between Californian Tribes and the United States of America 1851 to 1852 were never ratified even though the 1850 Act to make California a State had provisions to do so. The United States Senate refused to ratify the 18 Treaties. (Land in California,W.W. Robinson)
California has a dark past in Native American dealings and issues that most Californians don't know anything about. It really started with the Spanish mission system
@@geothunder1971 And by the time the anglo saxon miners and settlers arrived they brought a manifest destinty attitude aimed at indigenous erradication.
Every analyst should be able to map these routes of history. ✨
Thank you.
Palo Alto gained traction with the leaders of Davos. DAVOS was talked about by Art Bell when he was still alive.
Art Bell.....was a real true AMERICAN icon and hero in my eyes...EVERYTHING THAT MAN TRYED TO WARN US ABOUT is truly folding out in everyday life especially of being aware of the 33 degree Mason
Fascinating subject! We need more coverage on Big Tech in all its aspects
i like the spanish revival architecture of Stanford. it's a shame the office parks were not built that way around stone fruit trees courtyards.
Well said!
Why is the American taxpayers dollar going to Ukraine, while the American public is getting poor every day. It is time for Americans to vote out both parties and start a new peoples party.
how beautiful are the stone fruit trees
I grew up south of here. My main memory beyond be friends w those that defended the Panthers and all the horrors was Bill Clinton exploding wealth of silicon valley. Bless this young man. He did not mention east Palo Alto where black and poor were forced to live and I wonder now I grew up near Carmel Valley where Leon Penetta lives on a long time ranch. I am sure he lives in comfort. The valley like our economy and silicon has been ruined. This is 2 hours from silicon. Many moved in. The elite took over pastoral beauty
Smart guy.
Palo Alto is a delicious cranberry in this beautiful California salad!
Our congress is made up of "lawmakers" people who represent the "US". This is a perfect example of Russell's Paradox. The question now becomes who does the U.S. represent?
The answer is Big Business.
he also had the good luck 2 make it out alive: Amy's introduction of Malcolm Harris.
I read of this guy on Calmatters. Might just be a coincidence, but go figure he's popping up again here. I might just need to read it.
More than a hundred years ago.... Try 150 yrs. It was a nice town until c.1976 when the fern bars and Berkinstock crowd arrived. I was at High and University, "The Poppycock", c.1969. We lived on the 3rd floor for $50 month. Ed McClanahan was on the 2nd floor and paid $25month. We did the light shows and managed Poppycock. John Darcy did the bookings and Lighning Hopkins, Earl Hooker, Magic Sam, Dan Hicks, Mose Allison and Many more played.... You'll never see That Palo Alto again.
And all this time I thought Deadheads invented the internet to share bootlegs, haha! In all seriousness, very interesting interview, I'll add this book to my reading list
Silicon Valley is one of the most segregated places in America.
Upton Sinclair
*history of california, capitalism and the world*
Greetings from the 254
Kenya or Texas?! I looked it up thinking it might be a Bay area code that I wasn't familiar with. It is very much a California thing to do the area code shout out. 🍀✌️😎
@@erinmcdonald7781 kenya
Check out the big brain on Malcolm!
Gladwelll is a low weight big tech grifter
Poor Amy, it was like drawing teeth.
I read a review of this book on NYT. lol.
Good lad
I will never not find those transitions from precolombine Americans to Anglosaxon rule with no in between curious, to say the least. You would thing that in California form all places the in between would have been the hardest to ignore...
*Dude with the Dragon 🦎 Tatoo.*
*Palto Alto*
*Malcolm Harris*
The telecom pyramid is fascinating 6:47
6:47? you sure about that?
*Palo Alto*
Larry Ellison Oracle (democratic google hillary) 6:18
who is author: malcom Harris?
Yet another great Democratic Now video exposing our dark history. 🙏🏻
He grew up in a very different town than I.
he has a victim mentality with an above average IQ
The person who should have told you about is Paul popenoe
The history ad capitalism, I n this country."
As lawlessness became the Norm, vigilantism will Also become the norm.
The sheeple are lapping it up like hungry dogs.
that would be great!
The revolution will not be televised.
They k!ll doctors in China...when they give their loved ones bad care that results in death. That type of vigilantism would be grrreat!
"Democracy is the road to socialism." Karl Marx.
Tatooz need to get on that and assist and expose the racial diaspora.
I lived in Palo Alto in the mid60s. I graduated from one of the three high schools in the city. I just received my copy of "Palo Alto" and I have to say Malcom's view is pretty limited. Not from his age, but from what he is saying. I guess I figured I'd be reading a historical book and not a left agended writer's viewpoint. So far, his writing is talented, but it is way too slanted to the left for me. Where is his anger toward the Spanish and how they came into the area to dominate the locals? The Spanish were responsible for the start of the western world's damage to the area. Hope it gets better.
*must be thousands of them holding in important info/data/stats*
Amy is too cute . My wife would kill for her hair.
The layoffs are exactly the same as the last time the tech industry laid off hundreds of thousands of people in Arizona Motorola closed all their microchip facilities. Sold to China shipped all equipment for build building semiconductors to China. Laid off all employees. This is a pattern.
The lying rectangle - algorithm = Oz curtain
what is happining now in Palestine in Nabls and Genin remind the world of Dwabsha's family who were burnt by Israeli settlers, they burnt the mother holding her 6 months infant and the father all were burnt to death as did the 4 years old who survived with great deal of injuries
freedom and justice to Palestine and Palestinians
My heart goes out to those suffering in Gaza and the West Bank. I'm so upset that my government won't at least call out the Israeli government for their human rights violations.
I pray for the Palestinians to continue to have strength and courage. I have been touched by the spirit and heart they have in their community. I also hope that they can get leadership which can represent and protect them, but I know that's difficult since Israel, US, and a number of Arab states just want a puppet they can control. 💔🇵🇸🍀
waves🌊🌊 of layoffs
he no he a bad oz🏆
What about Margaret Sanger?
some tymes yah gotta pause from reading and stop and listen.
Interesting bits, but the interview also feels schizoid.
eugenics in standford
Hand Sign
*Leland Stanford*
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@9:30 I don't think the connection between suicides and tech companies and China was fully explained. This interview felt disjointed and scattered to me. I guess it's just a general book about Palo Alto.
Essentially, what he's referring to is the general connection between the Capitalist Industrial System and human misery. He could be talking about almost any bigger American city. It's just that Big Tech is the type of Big Business that exists in Palo Alto. It's old material. At this point, just about everyone knows about the nexus between Big Business, Universities, elite eugenicists\social Darwinists and human misery.
ultra super evil supergreedies
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In this interview, this man does not connect the historical dots he claims in a way that someone not familiar with the topics can understand.
Yes, needing more context. I hope reading the book will get all the context.
Amy also asked some very specific questions right off. I'm hoping there's more to this interview on their website. I keep forgetting to check because I came to know them through this platform.
I came out with the same feeling.
*research*
*he a d shake expressionism*
He's looks yun
Waves 🌊 of Suicide.
whitney webb type
At smellysoccky yeah prepared but … she should have handed the questions over to an Indian anchor woman
Palo Alto means ( "world new Order " ) world Media control office.
I thought only females had dragon🐉 tatooz
Ston Fruit Court
suicides of apple farmers in chyna.
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