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December 21, 2023 at 7:50 pm #1854333

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Cory Doctorow writes a long about this, corporations wanting to sell a service rather than a product. It’s not a conspiracy, it’s just the failure of our elected politicians to govern in our interests and regulate on our behalf. What we have now is called chokepoint capitalism. Its essentially a move back towards feudalism, a landlord class charging us to use their services, stopping us from owning things, preventing farmers from repairing their tractors, readers owning books, hobbyists owning their hobby. It’s exactly the sort of behaviour capitalism was originally conceived to prevent, a wealthy elite owning everything. When young people say they hate capitalism, I tell them, this isn’t capitalism.