Join current New School student Chris Hughes, who started Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, as he calls for the company to be broken up. Hear him discuss how anti-competitive behavior by monopolies in tech and elsewhere hurts society, and what we can do to fix it. He’ll field questions from TechCrunch’s Josh Constine about the story of Facebook’s rise, its effects on our lives, and why he decided to speak up. Plus, they’ll explore the need for a rethinking of political economy in America and what role a guaranteed income, wealth tax, and competition policy could play to create more economic growth in America.
This event is part of SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
Presented by The New School.
Chris Hughes is the Co-Chair of the Economic Security Project, a non-profit working to make the modern economy more dynamic and fair by reinvigorating anti-monopoly policy and creating a guaranteed income for all Americans. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank working to reimagine the rules of the economy. In 2018, he published his first book, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn.
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Chris Hughes is the Co-Chair of the Economic Security Project, a non-profit working to make the modern economy more dynamic and fair by reinvigorating anti-monopoly policy and creating a guaranteed income for all Americans. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive think tank working to reimagine the rules of the economy. In 2018, he published his first book, Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn.
