By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026I'm worried that the seven companies that comprise 35% of the S&P 500 are headed for bankruptcy, as soon as someone makes them stop passing around the same $100b IOU while pretending it's in all their bank accounts at once. 12/ 115838
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026I'm worried that when that happens, the chatbots that badly do the jobs of the people who were fired because of the AI salesman will go away, and nothing and no one will do those jobs. 13/ 1754
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/04/2026I'm worried that the chaos caused by vaporizing a third of the stock market will lead to austerity and thence to fascism: pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/a... 14/ I worry that the workers who did those jobs will be scattered to the four winds, retrained or "discouraged" or retiredpluralistic.netPluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 210312
