By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/05/2026One of my bedrock beliefs is that capitalists *really* hate capitalism. They name their beloved institutes after the likes of Adam Smith, but they ignore everything Smith had to say about the necessity of competition to keep markets from turning into monopolies: pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/c... 1/ 14351136
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/05/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/c... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 1445
Mity Cheese @mitycheese.bsky.social · 10/05/2026It's less that they hate capitalism and more that they love money and power. Capitalism just provides an easier road. Once they're higher up the wealth and power ladder, feudalism becomes more attractive and more attainable. 010
Shana at the Cottage @shana-nola.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I think what they want is to be aristocracy with everyone's clear acknowledgement of their superiority while permanent underclasses serve them. Basically the capitalism of the Confederacy. 000
The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Don't remember where I originally read it but it's been pointed out that the *inside* of every corporation is both a dictatorship and a fully managed communist-style economy. And it's the CEO/executive class who runs it. 1327
Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I'm competing to be the best at building moats. This one's not big enough for my decorative yacht fleet. - Illionaires Imagine if the world held embetterment competitions and made wealth harder to hoard the higher up you got. Imagine if we had citizens panels to build systems like that. 000
Friends of Gill Beck Valley @gillbeckvalley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Only have to look at the history of humanity to see how societal dynamics allow the well-being of the masses to be subverted into the aggrandizement of plutocrats. Nations will direct their energies to constructing the Great Pyramid of Bezos 000
CJ Moose 🫎 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The capitalists certainly hate informed consumers, which is why they fight tooth and nail from disclosing anything about their products. 0294
Molly For All 🇺🇦✌️ @mollyforall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026🎯 You’ve watched this, right? “Competition is for losers.” Peter Thiel, 2015youtu.bePeter Thiel - Competition Is For Losers - Stanford CS 183B Autumn Quarter 2014-2015YouTube video by Joel Moxley 1123
Exatron @exatron.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The only thing they like about capitalism is the name. What they love is feudalism. 010
Damien: Omen II the Joy Fantastic @mrmunchertoyou.bsky.social · 06/05/2026When the economy goes through one of its seemingly inevitable whoopsy-doodles, though, these selfsame motherfuckers will gleefully explain it as being caused by the system not being properly capitalist. Not in the sense clearly elaborated here, but I'm the sense that it's just much too regulated 1132
Vultures Daily @vulturesdaily.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Actual vultures like John James Audubon’s depiction of the California Condor [in this image]are an important part of the ecosystem that help to prevent dangerous pathogens like anthrax, botulism, tuberculosis, and even rabies! #KeepCalmAndCarrion #VulturesDaily 000
ritterjcat @ritterjcat.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Very interesting thread, but I do have a question: why call people who hate capitalism capitalists? Wouldn’t it be better to call them monopolists or something like that? 230