By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026"One of the many problems with this “automate and compensate” bargain is that it is wildly outside the recognizable political economy of the US today... 2335
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026"Since the 1980s, income inequality has increased dramatically, and the American elite did not respond with generous new political programs of welfare expansion... 1244
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/10/2026"Nor did the politics of the US otherwise produce a broad coalition of voters outside the elite who demanded and won such an expansion. (Many basic cash welfare programs were cut back over this same period)." 1221
