By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026I think this shows just how much the enshittification of tech is a matter of the policy environment, not the personalities of the people involved. 36/ 1294
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026Sure, the worst people imaginable run these companies, but the *reason* they're able to yield to their most venal impulses and succeed is because the world has been re-arranged to make sociopathy and greed into fitness factors. 37/ 22411
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026We get technocarcinization because the most fit organism for a landscape without consequences is a zuckerbergian techno-crab: pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/m... 38/pluralistic.netMicroincentives and Enshittification – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1237
Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Yes, thank you, Cory Doctorow! The above statement is also elaborated upon by Greg Elliott; the winners within symbolic systems end up rewriting the rules of the game (changing the environment in which all others must compete) and they write them in their image:gregelliott2000.substack.comThe Psychopathic Selection Hypothesis Guide for ReadersMajor Theoretical Contributions and Implications for Evolution, Game Theory, and Institutional Analysis 011
