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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/05/2026

But capitalists really *hate* risk, hence the drive to monopoly: Mark Zuckerberg admitted, *in writing*, that he only bought Instagram so that he wouldn't have to compete with it ("It is better to buy than to compete" -M. Zuckerberg): pluralistic.net/2025/11/20/i... 10/

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Pluralistic: The long game (20 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/05/2026

Capitalists hate capitalism, but they *love* feudalism. Feudalism's like capitalism: you have a ruling class that creams off the surplus generated by labor; but in feudalism, society is organized to protect *rents* (money from owning stuff) over *profits* (money from doing stuff). 11/

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Pluralistic: Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?” (28 Sep 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/05/2026

The beauty of rents is that they are insulated from risk: if you own a coffee shop, you're in constant danger of being put out of business by a better coffee shop. 12/

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Which makes is extra weird that Yanis love Putin.

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