By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026But inevitably, people who win the orifice lottery observe that they come from a long line of wealthy people, a line that will continue with their own descendants. 21/ 218115
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026This leads them to conclude that they have some kind of special, heritable virtue - magic blood - that the system has recognized with their great fortunes and the power those fortunes confer. 32/ 223623
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026That's when things get dangerous: when aristocrats grow bored with leisure and mobilize their inherited capital to change the way we all live. Billionaire dilettantes are weapons of mass destruction, and their special projects have a wide blast radius and inflict a *lot* of collateral damage. 33/ 1426147
