By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026By the same token: the real "dead economy" risk isn't that all the productive labor will be done by chatbots owned by a habitual liar and eminently guillotineable billionaire like Sam Altman. 18/ 129127
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026The *actual* dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles. 19/ 4411109
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/06/2026We *could* do "AI cancer research" by producing tools that automate gnarly multivariant analysis problems for cancer researchers. 20/ 327933
Ghostopher Sheet @lordshark.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I'm partial to Ed Zitron's referring to it as "The Rot Economy." www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-econ...wheresyoured.atThe Rot EconomyAt the center of everything I’ve written for the last few months (if not the last few years), sits a cancerous problem with the fabric of how capital is deployed in modern business. Public and private... 0135
Dr. Kiki @drkiki.bsky.social · 18/06/2026But, as all that is imaginary capital anyway, can't we just make a parallel real economy from labor that shuns the stock market? I mean, can't we build something better now? 020
A.C.Lander @landruc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Was it Marx who said finance capitalism was the final stage before capitalism would collapse? 000
