Book Review: Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us
by Ro Khanna
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.
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