By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026It's not exactly horseshoe theory vindicated, but if you squint just right, you'll see both communists and capitalists agreeing on this one thing. 9/ 1353
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026If you want the bourgeoisie to bend its efforts to producing something that the rest of us can benefit from, you'll get further by appealing to their fear and greed than by trusting in their munificence. 10/ 3435
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026This is how you can have both leftists and market true believers coming onto the same side on antitrust: they may not both exactly agree that the best way to run things is by appealing to capitalists' fear of being dethroned by a competitor. 11/ 1375
Mike Hutchinson @hutchymon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Why charity doesn't replace government programs btw 000
TrueSync @truesync.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Is this actually true Seems that fear and markets just forces the local baker to adopt the mannerism of the big chain multinational bread maker Lower cost ingredients worse quality and mistreatment of workers in wages conditions and organizing 100
