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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026

By capitalizing on that information (rather than using it to efficiently match buyers and sellers), Amazon can match you with the sellers willing to pay the highest junk fees, rather than the ones who offer the best price for the best goods: pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/s... 42/

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Pluralistic: Big Tech’s “attention rents” (03 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026

This is Wu's Main Character Syndrome in action. Once Amazon attains a dominant market share, it can maximize its own welfare at the expense of its buyers and sellers, transforming itself from a helper to a parasite: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawf... 43/

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Lawfare Daily: Tim Wu on ‘The Age of Extraction’

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026

Google *says* it wants to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," but every dime it spends fighting fraud (a critical part of this mission!) is a dime it can't spend on stock buybacks, executive compensation and AI servers. 44/

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Scabby Don't @generalmonkey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Market domination enables profit through deprivation, which is politely called artificial scarcity. The purpose of the economy is to help us all to manage the risk of scarcity, so imposing artificial scarcity for private gain makes one an enemy to all civilization, regardless of values.

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