By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026Thanks to the dismantling of labor protection and unions, no one had enough money to get by. Thanks to elite impunity, we were ruled by monsters who committed crimes in the open and thrived as a result. 63/ 1554
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026Thanks to unchecked greed, we paid everything we had for healthcare, only to be denied treatment when we needed it. Thanks to the dismantling of the welfare state, more and more of us had to wait in long lines to fill out absurdly long forms in triplicate. 64/ 1606
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026Thanks to the intrinsic instability of such a terrible system, more and more of us ended up in prison, and protest became more and more illegal: memex.craphound.com/2015/02/02/d... 65/memex.craphound.comDavid Graeber’s The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX 1514
