By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026We're *all* fallible, of course, but only billionaires get to impose their foolish ideas on so many other people, who have no say in the matter. 1231
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026Henry Ford thought that he was so rich that he could build Brazilian worker housing whose windows faced the same direction as the worker housing he'd built in Dearborn, Michigan. 1171
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026He literally thought that being rich meant that he could ignore the entire concept of *the Earth's axial tilt* (he was wrong): memex.craphound.com/2010/06/02/f...memex.craphound.comFordlandia: novelistic history of Henry Ford’s doomed midwestern town in the Amazon jungle – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX 1160