By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026Therefore, any monopolist you encounter in the wild is *definitionally* not a bad monopolist, otherwise it would already have disappeared. 1461
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026To quote another economist joke: > Two economists are walking down the street when one notices a $20 bill on the sidewalk. "It's not a real $20 bill," the other declares. "If it were a real $20 bill, someone would have picked it up off the sidewalk already." 210113
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026Half a century later, our entire economy is dominated by monopolies, duopolies and cartels, who boast of *gigantic* margins, whose products are palpably worsening at an accelerating clip. 112120
Michael Toomey🇮🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸 @michaeltoomey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Amazing how well this joke can be applied to the Effective Altruism cult as well 040
