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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

It's just that it's being misallocated by the ultra-wealthy who don't even believe the majority of us exist, and who want to bet the planet and our species on a bizarre scheme to feed so many words to the world-guessing machines that they wake up and become gods: pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/v...

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Pluralistic: Billionaire solipsism, dictator solipsism, AI, and the fascist paradigm (13 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

Nearly a century ago, John Maynard Keynes published "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," where he extrapolated from rising productivity to predict a fifteen-hour work-week within two generations: www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ11...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

That dream was destroyed by war and greed. Today, we are submerged in an ocean of debt. I'm not talking about the (fictional) "national debt" that is just a measure of all the dollars the government has spent into existence without taxing out of existence: pluralistic.net/2024/10/21/w...

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Pluralistic: Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar (21 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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