By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026In a competitive labor market, we can secure fair treatment for workers without labor law or unions - bosses who treat their workers badly will lose them to better bosses. Just "align the incentives" and let markets do the rest. 4/ 1423
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026It's an area where there's broad overlap between left and right. Chapter 1 of *The Communist Manifesto* is Marx and Engels' love letter to the incredible power of markets to improve everyone's material conditions by increasing production while lowering costs: www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/b... 4/nytimes.comWhy ‘The Communist Manifesto’ Still Matters (Gift Article)In “A Spectre, Haunting,” the British fantasy writer and political activist China Miéville makes the case for why Marx and Engels’s famous pamphlet remains vital today. 1465
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026Meanwhile, over in *Wealth of Nations*, Adam Smith comes to the same conclusion: 5/ 1342
