GoFundMe Profits From People’s Pain
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Nora Kenworthy on the tech company and our unjust healthcare system.
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GoFundMe Profits from People’s Pain | Tech Won't Save Us
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Nora Kenworthy to discuss how people rely on GoFundMe to access healthcare and the further inequities that adds to an already deeply unequal healthcare system.
Nora Kenworthy is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell.
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Tim Cadogan, chief executive officer of GoFundMe Inc., on Tuesday, October 10, 2023.
(Betty Laura Zapata / Bloomberg via Getty ImagesOn this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, we’re joined by Nora Kenworthy to discuss how people rely on GoFundMe to access healthcare and the further inequities that adds to an already deeply unequal healthcare system.
Nora Kenworthy is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare and an associate professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington, Bothell.
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Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without the boring parts, featuring the writers, activists and artists who shape the news, from a progressive perspective.
Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn Friesen | Tech Won't Save Us
On this episode of Tech Won't Save Us, Paris Marx is joined by Taylor Welling and Kathryn Friesen to discuss how they formed wall-to-wall unions in the video game industry and their thoughts on broader challenges like layoffs and corporate consolidation.
Taylor Welling is a producer and union member at OneBGS and Kathryn Friesen is quest designer and member of the World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild.
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