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Chapter 10
Themes
and Colors
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Careless People, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Carelessness, Wealth, and Greed
Idealism and the Failed Promises of Technology
Sexism in the Workplace
Bureaucracy and Obstacles to Change
Summary
Analysis
One of Wynn-Williams’s biggest challenges is breastfeeding, as she ends having to take a breast pump wherever she goes, even as far away as Brazil. About a year ago, Zuckerberg launched something called Internet.org that is supposedly about bringing free internet to unconnected parts of the world but is also about creating more of a market for Facebook. Wynn-Williams is in Bogotá to try to convince Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos to be a partner. To see where they’ll be bringing internet, they take a long trip into the jungle, including through areas still contested for control with guerrilla fighters, forcing Wynn-Williams to go a long time without breast pumping.
Wynn-Williams has seen firsthand from her visit to Myanmar how people in many parts of the world lack internet access, and so initially Zuckerberg’s Internet.org initiative seems to fit with her idealistic goals about technology’s potential. But as she travels through Brazil shortly after giving birth, she realizes that a company like Facebook does nothing to accommodate for women who are breastfeeding, in part as a result of how male-dominated the company is.
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Later, in Turkey, Wynn-Williams has another issue where her pump breaks and she tries to mime about getting a breast pump to the hotel receptionist, only for the receptionist to misunderstand and send a sex worker to her room.
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