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Cory Doctorow

As tech giants reach terminal , hollowed out to the point where they are barely able to keep their end-users or business customers locked in, the capital classes are ready for the final , where all the value is transfered from people who make things for a living to people who own things for a living.

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A group of firefighters holding a safety net under a building from which a man is falling; he is supine and has his hands behind his head. The sky has a faint, greyscale version of the 'Matrix Waterfall' effect. The building bears a Google logo. Image: University of North Texas Libraries (modified) https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth586821/
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Cory Doctorow

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/03/21/tec

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pluralistic.netPluralistic: Mass tech worker layoffs and the soft landing (21 Mar 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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