Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Why does Eubanks include a personal anecdote about the “red flags” she and her partner experienced with the health care system? How does her story compare and contrast with the stories of the people in her book?

During each depression in the US, “critics blamed relief programs for creating dependence on public assistance” (26). Why does this critique of relief programs arise? How can we stop this cycle, according to Eubanks?

Research one of the works Eubanks references in her book, including George Orwell’s 1984, or Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here. Why does she include these works? Do they add to her argument? Why or why not?