Cory Doctorow on Nostr: "One of the many problems with this “automate and compensate” bargain is that it ...
"One of the many problems with this “automate and compensate” bargain is that it is wildly outside the recognizable political economy of the US today. Since the 1980s, income inequality has increased dramatically, and the American elite did not respond with generous new political programs of welfare expansion.
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