One of my bedrock beliefs is that capitalists *really* hate capitalism. They name their beloved institutes after the likes of Adam Smith, but they ignore everything Smith had to say about the necessity of competition to keep markets from turning into monopolies:
pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/c...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
Dimitra Rizou
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Dimitra Rizou
Dimitra Rizou
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Dimitra Rizou
AI has democratized solipsism, a privilege that was once the exclusive purview of billionaires, whose belief that most other people weren't fully *real* let them inflict the kind of mass pain on millions that is a prerequisite for amassing a truly vast fortune:
pluralistic.net/2025/08/18/s...
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