Cory Doctorow on Nostr: They insist that we can't have nice things until we make billionaires poor - which is ...
They insist that we can't have nice things until we make billionaires poor - which is the same as saying that we can't have nice things, period.
There are damned good reasons to make billionaires poor. The legitimacy of the American system is incompatible with the perception that wealth and power are fixed by birth, and that the rich and powerful don't have to play by the rules.
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