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Back to EpisodesDownstream: Influencers, Exploitation and Capitalism w/ Symeon Brown
Published 4 years, 2 months ago
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How far would you go to get famous and escape poverty? Ash Sarkar is joined by Symeon Brown, Channel 4 News reporter and author of ‘Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy’, to discuss how the democratic promise of the internet has reinvented the pyramid scheme. From cryptocurrencies to botched Brazilian butt lifts, they look at how the clout economy has created a digital lumpenproletariat.