Cory Doctorow on Nostr: It's hard to talk about the Epstein class without thinking about "The Economy" - "The ...
It's hard to talk about the Epstein class without thinking about "The Economy" - "The Economy" in the sense of a kind of mystical, free-floating entity whose health or sickness determines the outcomes for all the rest of us, whom we must make sacrifices to if we are to prosper.
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