By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026All billionaires: after all, if providence and the market's invisible hand has seen fit to bestow nine or more zeroes upon someone, that is an indicator of 10^9 times more virtue than someone with only a dollar to their name. 50/ 1312
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026But especially: intellectual billionaires, the kinds of "curious" billionaires who write books, give lectures, and (especially), make gigantic cash donations to think-tanks, university economics departments, conferences and journals. Billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, in other words. 51/ 2272
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026These are the billionaires that capitalism's (alleged) defenders are caping for when they deplore "billionaire derangement syndrome," and fret that candidates for office now routinely cite enmity for billionaires in their campaign materials: marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... 52/marginalrevolution.comAndrew Hall is on a roll - Marginal REVOLUTIONHe is one of the new(ish) thinkers on the rise, here is his latest piece. Excerpt: For most of the past decade, anti-billionaire language was a niche product. Democratic emails invoked billionaires i... 1270
jamesneill.bsky.social @jamesneill.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Peter Thiel has never read a book he didn’t misunderstand (Tolkien, Girard…). 1362
