5 empresas controlam a infraestrutura digital de bilhões. Quem as regula? | Por Ladislau Dowbor

🎥 Access https://icl.com.br/aulas and watch the complete ICL content. In this excerpt from the lecture given at ICL, "The Era of Unproductive Capital," economist Ladislau Dowbor reveals how Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, the so-called GAFA, have ceased to be merely technology companies and have become the largest concentrators of economic and political power in the contemporary world. Dowbor shows how these five platforms control data flows, consumer behavior, entire markets, and even political decisions, operating on a logic of unproductive capital that extracts wealth without generating real value for society. They are not companies that produce, they are companies that capture. And the more they capture, the more power they accumulate. The lecture proposes an essential debate: when five companies control the digital infrastructure of billions of people, who regulates the regulator? And what does this mean for democracy, for the sovereignty of countries, and for the daily life of each citizen? This reflection invites us to understand GAFAM not as technology companies, but as the new face of power in the 21st century. 🧑‍🏫 Professor Ladislau Dowbor - Economist, professor at PUC-SP and one of the world's leading experts on economic development, unproductive capital and corporate power. 📚 ICL is an Institute of Education and Culture with over 400 courses available. Learn from leading thinkers and researchers from around the world. Become a member and gain access to all exclusive content. 👉 Watch the full content at https://icl.com.br/aulas 🌿 "Only knowledge liberates." — José Martí.