Against Tech Oligarchy

Elon Musk’s Endgame

The Ezra Klein Show, 30 October 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 12 min in.

Quinn Slobodian calls Against Tech Oligarchy by JS Tan and Clarissa Radwine 'really special,' the third of three recommended books. Both authors organised inside Silicon Valley tech companies — Clarissa Redwine led the successful Kickstarter unionisation effort and both were inside Twitter during the Musk takeover. Slobodian praises the book's insider account of class struggle in tech and its argument that effective labour power does not always run through the conventional model of winning formal union recognition.

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