By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026If you truly believed that those people were as real as you are, you'd never be able to look yourself in the mirror. 14/ 140318
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026Whether it's Leona Helmsley's claim that "only the little people pay taxes," or Elon Musk's habit of calling people who disagree with him "NPCs," the whole ideological project of billionaireism is shot through with a kind of solipsism: pluralistic.net/2026/01/05/f... 15/pluralistic.netPluralistic: A world without people (05 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 442646
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026This is true even in one-on-one encounters: for the Epstein Class, the children raped on his island weren't fully real - certainly not as real as their own children. 16/ 234730
will fain @reverer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It's instructive to delineate two ways our ruling class errs: believing that most people don't matter morally/normatively, and believing that most people don't matter practically/logistically. The former is evil, the latter is deluded and worryingly incompetent. Workers create the world's wealth! 021
sfbaycityzen.bsky.social @sfbaycityzen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026There are people in the world who do behave like NPCs. 100
