By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026Economists call these equations "models," and they are famously impenetrable...unless you've had extensive training in economics. 1191
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026Once everything important about the economy was captured by abstruse equations, ordinary people's "feelings" about being squeezed, coerced, corralled or cheated were no longer germane: pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/r...pluralistic.netPluralistic: 09 May 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow4:08 PM · Sep 11, 2026 1275
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026Thus, antitrust was transformed: no longer was it an inquiry into the power that a company wielded or might amass through a merger. Rather, every competition question was a matter of solving an equation that would tell you whether the result would be "efficient": pluralistic.net/2021/06/03/j...pluralistic.netPluralistic: 03 Jun 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1221
