By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026To live in an age of monopolies is to live in an age of regulatory capture, in which your government routinely fails you in terrible ways to benefit elites and insiders. 18724
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026When that happens, it's easy to conclude that government is *incapable* of regulating, and to insist that we might as well do away with the state altogether. This is a self-reinforcing belief, because the weaker the state is, the more monopolists can steal from you: pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/r...pluralistic.netRegulatory Capture – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 16310
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026Say you lived through the murder of an addicted loved one at the hands of the billionaire Sacklers, who were abetted by their putative regulators and got to keep billions of dollars even after they declared "bankruptcy." 1420
