By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026One thing the Mamdani campaign impressed upon every politician in the country is that people are *pissed* about affordability and they will support anyone who stands up for the public against AI-equipped price gougers. 22/ 213115 131
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026The problem of course is that those price gougers are highly organized and have deep treasuries (stuffed with money they stole from us). With surveillance pricing, politicians face a familiar conundrum: if they do the thing that's popular with voters, they'll enrage donors. 23/ 19015 90
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 30/07/2026One way to cut this knot is to enact legislation that *seems* to address the problem, but stuff it with so many loopholes that it does nothing. 24/ 1673 67
