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Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein
Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

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A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit

At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. But to truly understand the delirious reality of the tech entrepreneurs, he knew he would have to inhabit that perspective — he would have to become an entrepreneur himself. Thus Pein begins his journey — skulking through gimmicky tech conferences, pitching his over-the-top business ideas to investors, and rooming with a succession of naive upstart programmers whose entire lives are managed by their employers — who work endlessly and obediently, never thinking to question their place in the system.

In showing us this frantic world, Pein challenges the positive, feel-good self-image that the tech tycoons have crafted — as nerdy and benevolent creators of wealth and opportunity — revealing their self-justifying views and their insidious visions for the future. Vivid and incisive, Live Work Work Work Die is a troubling portrait of a self-obsessed industry bent on imposing its disturbing visions on the rest of us.

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"All praise to Corey Pein for jumping headfirst into the cesspool of Silicon Valley and returning without having lost his mind or sold his soul. His reports from the front lines of the startup frenzy are hilarious and terrifying. While all eyes are glued on President Trump, a shortsighted and reactionary techno-oligarchy aims to amass a fortune at the cost of the common good. There’s no app that can save us. But this book can at least wake us up to the dystopian future under construction." Astra Taylor, author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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"In the spirit of George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, Corey Pein takes us on a gonzo misadventure through the underbelly of Silicon Valley, exposing the dystopian comedy behind the techno optimism with wry observation and gleeful contempt. A helluva ride." Joe Hagan, author of Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine

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"Impressive...Reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels in both style and conceit, Live Work Work Work Die is a combination of New Journalism and muckraking told with an anthropological eye....Alternately amusing and horrifying." Salon

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Corey Pein is an investigative reporter and a regular contributor to The Baffler. A former staff writer for Willamette Week, he has also written for Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Stealing free beer from WeWork isn't making you fitter, happier, more productive,comfortable,not drinking too much,regular exercise at the gym,three days a week,getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,at ease,eating well,no more microwave dinners and saturated fats,a patient, better driver,a safer car,baby smiling in back seat,sleeping well,no bad dreams,no paranoia,careful to all animals,never washing spiders down the plughole,keep in contact with old friends,enjoy a drink now and then,will frequently check credit at moral bank,hole in the wall,favours for favours,fond but not in love,charity standing orders,on Sundays ring road supermarket,no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants,car wash,also on Sundays,no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows,nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,nothing so childish,at a better pace,slower and more calculated,no chance of escape,now self-employed,concerned but powerless,an empowered and informed member of society,pragmatism not idealism,will not cry in public,less chance of illness,tyres that grip in the wet,shot of baby strapped in back seat,a good memory,still cries at a good film,still kisses with saliva,no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,that's driven into frozen winter shit,the ability to laugh at weakness,calm,fitter, healthier and more productive,a pig in a cage on antibiotics

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