By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026Anyone who believes in markets must also tacitly believe that successful market participants *don't* believe in markets. They should understand that capitalists hate capitalism, that every pirate yearns to be an admiral. 17/ 29730
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026They should understand that capitalism's winners only defend disruption when they're the ones doing the disrupting. 18/ 1629
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026They should understand profits are only good when you're a scrappy challenger, but once you've conquered the market, every capitalist seeks out feudal lordhood, converting profits to rents, insulating themselves from an exhausting life of constant competition: pluralistic.net/2023/09/28/c... 19/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Yanis Varoufakis’s “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?” (28 Sep 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 18523
