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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/07/2026

It's a truism that in a gold rush, the only people who come out ahead are the ones selling picks and shovels. It's not true - there's *even more money* to be made wholesaling picks and shovels to the retailers who operate the frontier mercantiles. Go meta! commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al... 24/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/07/2026

Today's economy is dominated by pick-and-shovel wholesalers. America is a gerontocracy drowning in MBAs, while there's no one to do eldercare: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... 25/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 13/07/2026

So it's not surprising that we don't ask why these AI god-botherers need our stupid money while they're immanentizing the eschaton. Why would they operate a hospital if they could go meta and sell the doctorbots to the MBAs running the hospital? eof/

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