Europe’s Subservience to the United States w/ Ben Wray
Tech Won't Save Us
The Machinist · Paris Marx
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Episode: Europe’s Subservience to the United States w/ Ben Wray
Pub date: 2025-12-11
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Paris Marx is joined by Ben Wray to discuss the Europe’s capitulation to pressure from the United States on Nexperia, as well as on digital protections and labor rights that could have big implications for the future of work.
Ben Wray is a researcher specializing in the platform economy. He writes the Gig Economy Project newsletter and his most recent report for the ETUC is called Uberisation.
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 Kyla Hewson.
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Also mentioned in this episode:
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Ben wrote about the brief attempt by the Dutch to nationalize Nexperia.
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In leaked documents from 2012-2017 Uber executives recognize their own illegal activity and refer to themselves as ‘pirates’.
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Spain recently ordered Meta to pay €479m fine for breaching EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
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