By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026Friedman had a stock answer for this question: "In times of crisis, ideas move from the periphery to the center. Our job is to 'keep ideas lying around' so that when the crisis strikes, we will be able to seize the moment." 190 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026Friedman was a monster, but he was *right*. There's *always* a crisis, eventually - the world is big and complicated and subject to all kinds of shocks. Friedman didn't need a crystal ball to predict a crisis - the next crisis was eminently foreseeable. 180 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026Today, crises are coming thicker and faster than ever, as Friedman's program of autocratic rule and extraction reaches a boiling point. Each of the scams that Owens lays out in her book is a crisis in waiting. 180 0
