Cuomo is letting billionaires plan New York's future. It doesn't have to be this way Zephyr Teachout and Pat Garofalo
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The New York governor is replacing elected representatives with private, unaccountable monopolists, and lawmakers across the US are doing the same thing
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Last week, New York’s governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that former Microsoft CEO and Gates Foundation head Bill Gates would be responsible for “reimagining” New York’s education system. Cuomo also asked former Google CEO Eric Schmidt to lead a panel planning New York’s post-Covid tech infrastructure.
As Naomi Klein writes, the appointments of Schmidt and Gates represent a “Pandemic Shock Doctrine … that is being rushed into being as the bodies still pile up [and] treats our past weeks of physical isolation not as a painful necessity to save lives, but as a living laboratory for a permanent – and highly profitable – no-touch future”. Continue reading...
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