By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/05/2026But that's not the world capitalists want. For capitalists, the point is to restrict other people's choices in order to maximize your own freedom. 5/ 17311
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/05/2026That's how we get economic doctrines like "revealed preferences": the idea that if a person says they want one thing, but does another thing, then you can tell what they *really* prefer by looking at the latter and disregarding the former. 6/ 2434
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/05/2026This is the kind of doctrine you can only fully embrace after sustaining the kind of highly specific neurological injury that is induced by taking an economics degree, an injury that makes you incapable of perceiving or reasoning about power. 7/ 116433
Vania @dawookie.bsky.social · 06/05/2026instead of centering ethics on consent, we center ethics on literal consumer behavior and then lock all the doors 000
