Don’t worry, that’s what race, gender, religion, and citizenship status are for!

Literally the opposite. Have you considered a career as a scarecrow salesperson?

Your bizarre “challenge” misunderstands the argument Doctorow is making. The idea isn’t to produce a magical new kind of corporation that will behave ethically out of the goodness of their hearts, but to change the material conditions companies operate under, such that their self interest aligns with what we want, due to their fear of losing business, being outcompeted, being fined, having workers go on strike, etc.

You seem to be assuming that the only two possibilities for a tech company’s bottom line are either a) grotesque monopoly profits or b) operating at a loss. But this is a false dilemma, since there’s a huge range of somewhat less profitable but still highly profitable business models in between those options! Doing a few billion less in stock buybacks every year while investing in better quality products or higher wages isn’t going to affect whether the tech giants are profitable. They just might have to compete a little more for those margins.

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin

The whole point of Docotorow’s work on enshittification is that it wasn’t inevitable. Tech CEOs have always been pulling the profit lever as hard as they could, but there’s a reason why those levers begun moving when they weren’t before, due to a confluence of bad policies. If we decided to, we could enforce antitrust law, repeal DMCA 1201, mandate interoperability, ban surveillance advertising, and unionize tech companies. And if we did that, guess what? Those disciplinary forces would help keep the psychopaths who run tech companies afraid of their users, competitors, workers, and regulators. Make enshittifiers afraid again, and we can have a good new internet.

Doctorow on wallet voting

Dada jokes

Well he cheated on his wife with something

Right. But just because the wealthy can easily afford concert tickets doesn’t mean Ticketmaster isn’t also price gouging.

Why not both?

Move slow and mend things

Missing the forest for the trees

JustWatch should automatically adjust the region based on your VPN connection, and lets you manually select a region if not

Any rumors/thoughts on what the settlement involved?

So, Georgism?

Why? Isn’t residency the better test of investment in a community (just as it is with voting)?

I doubt there’s any concern for housing availability driving this, otherwise they would tax or regulate vacation homes, Airbnb, etc. This is just screwing over permanent residents without citizenship in order to look tough on China.

Decolonization and prison abolition aren’t mutually exclusive. Carceral instincts for large populations are especially unhelpful here, as they’re the root of the problem.

Why are you dismissing the scapegoat explanation as “cultural”? The capitalist project is essentially to convince the turkeys (the public, or voters in a democracy) to support Thanksgiving dinner (their own exploitation). To do so, they have to convince the public that someone else, and not the capitalist class, is to blame. Immigrants are a favorite target to play this role, with cost of living, low wages, high housing prices, taxes to fund social services, and more being attributed in whole or in part to foreigners or “invaders” whom the capitalist promises to remove in order to supposedly benefit the public economically.