Summary of Ro Khanna's Dignity in a Digital Age

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

Book Preview: #1 When you are unemployed, it can be even more stressful than physical trauma. You worry constantly about your family and your future, and you never know when you will lose everything.

#2 The digital economy can create opportunities for people where they live instead of uprooting them. We must uplift service workers who face economic precarity, and we must make the high-tech revolution work for everyone instead of just certain Silicon Valley leaders who commodified our data while amassing fortunes.

#3 My story is different from Alex Hughes’s. I grew up in a community in Pennsylvania that was economically mixed. We were comfortable and never lacked for anything meaningful, but we were not rich.

#4 I was elected to represent Silicon Valley, which is home to many high-growth companies. I still love going back to Bucks County to visit my parents, especially with my wife and kids.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669356011

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#1

When you are unemployed, it can be even more stressful than physical trauma. You worry constantly about your family and your future, and you never know when you will lose everything.

#2

The digital economy can create opportunities for people where they live instead of uprooting them. We must uplift service workers who face economic precarity, and we must make the high-tech revolution work for everyone instead of just certain Silicon Valley leaders who commodified our data while amassing fortunes.

#3

My story is different from Alex Hughes’s. I grew up in a community in Pennsylvania that was economically mixed. We were comfortable and never lacked for anything meaningful, but we were not rich.

#4

I was elected to represent Silicon Valley, which is home to many high-growth companies. I still love going back to Bucks County to visit my parents, especially with my wife and kids.

#5

Despite all this, many leaders seem to suffer from the same blind spot: that place matters. While GDP and production have skyrocketed, too many American towns have hollowed out and local factories have closed.

#6

Americans’ sense of fulfillment is tied to where they live. Thus, national policymakers have largely ignored the destabilization of local communities. They have overlooked the fact that people do not simply want to be taken care of; they want to be agents of their own lives and productive members of society.

#7

Decentralizing tech can allow more Americans to stay rooted in their communities. They can attend their hometown church or synagogue, share meals with family and friends, read the local paper even if it’s online, and support traditional industries and workers.

#8

The central aspiration of this book is to reduce some of the bitterness within our nation. I believe that increasing connectivity and digital opportunities for left-behind Americans can reduce the divisness and dysfunction of our contemporary democracy.

#9

Many Americans are wary of the change that digital jobs may bring. They worry that a significant tech footprint could lead to more gadgets and sensors running their life and more isolation.

#10

There are limits to how much reimagining the digital economy can address polarization, resentment, and social alienation. But what jobs can do is give more Americans pride in restoring their communities with many important customs intact and respect as breadwinners in their families.

#11

The digital economy has brought dangers, such as surveillance, vitriol, censorship, exclusion, and the proliferation of misinformation. We must create digital institutions that better