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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026

Once 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...

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Pluralistic: 09 May 2022 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026

Thus, 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...

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Pluralistic: 03 Jun 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/09/2026

This framing was tactically *brilliant*. Once an economist pronounces a merger to be "efficient," everyone who opposes that merger can be dismissed as campaigning for an inefficient world. Who wants to live in an inefficient world?

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