{"id":7937,"date":"2022-11-18T09:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/the-grotesque-inequality-embodied-by-musk-bezos-and-zuckerberg-is-a-threat-to-democracy-jeff-sparrow\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T08:37:20","slug":"the-grotesque-inequality-embodied-by-musk-bezos-and-zuckerberg-is-a-threat-to-democracy-jeff-sparrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/the-grotesque-inequality-embodied-by-musk-bezos-and-zuckerberg-is-a-threat-to-democracy-jeff-sparrow\/","title":{"rendered":"The grotesque inequality embodied by Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg is a threat to democracy | Jeff Sparrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something\u2019s wrong when basic infrastructure maintenance seems utopian, while the hare-brained schemes of tech oligarchs become routine<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The higher the monkey climbs, the more he exposes his backside.<\/p>\n<p>So too with the super rich.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/nov\/18\/the-grotesque-inequality-embodied-by-musk-bezos-and-zuckerberg-is-a-threat-to-democracy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/91baffb9f10e0b3c862f7db753b3c58209c49eb8\/519_643_2571_1543\/master\/2571.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7c3c2d6b4baf520ca1b9db4698ed1244\" title=\"The grotesque inequality embodied by Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg is a threat to democracy | Jeff Sparrow\" \/>Something\u2019s wrong when basic infrastructure maintenance seems utopian, while the hare-brained schemes of tech oligarchs become routine<br \/>\nGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast<\/p>\n<p>The higher the monkey climbs, the more he exposes his backside.<br \/>\nSo too with the super rich. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something\u2019s wrong when basic infrastructure maintenance seems utopian, while the hare-brained schemes of tech oligarchs become routine Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The higher the monkey climbs, the more he exposes his backside. So too with the super rich. Continue reading&#8230; Something\u2019s wrong when basic infrastructure maintenance &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/the-grotesque-inequality-embodied-by-musk-bezos-and-zuckerberg-is-a-threat-to-democracy-jeff-sparrow\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The grotesque inequality embodied by Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg is a threat to democracy | Jeff Sparrow<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}