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Podcast: Belabored
Episode: Belabored Podcast #43: Google and Gentrification, with Julia Carrie Wong
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This week, Belabored talks to San Francisco-based journalist Julia Carrie Wong bout the ugly side of Silicon Valley and how tech giants have unleashed a wave of gentrification across the Bay Area. It seems that, despite their cool, youthful brand image, Google and Twitter are exploiting workers and aggravating inequality much the same way the robber ba...