By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026And of course, Gates supported and empowered Jeffrey Epstein and his rape island: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ga... 37/en.wikipedia.orgBill Gates - Wikipedia 120427
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Capital's tendency to accumulate in the hands of the already wealthy (r > g) means that these aristocrats end up setting an ever-larger proportion of our societal agenda, despite their manifest unfitness to govern and their absence of any kind of democratic legitimacy. 38/ 126472
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Piketty argues inequality is inherently politically destabilizing. A society ruled over fools and monsters who were not voted into power and can't be voted out of power is a doomed society. Eventually - French Revolution, World Wars - these societies grow so unstable they collapse altogether. 39/ 125951