Cory Doctorow on Nostr: There's a direct line from this phenomenon to nurses whose paychecks go down when ...
There's a direct line from this phenomenon to nurses whose paychecks go down when they can't pay their credit-card bills.
So competition is dead, regulation is dead, and companies aren't disciplined by markets or by states.
But there are *four* forces that discipline firms, contributing to an inhospitable environment for the reproduction of sociopathic. enshittifying monsters.
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