• sgtlion [any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    From an excerpt:

    A confession: I am no true believer in markets as the best arbiter of how our society should work, who should be in charge of it and how its productive capacity should be organised. Like other leftists, I am deeply suspicious of capitalism. I understand the temptation to look at all this verbiage about enshittification, throw your hands up and say, “What do you expect? Capitalism always produces crises of production. Enshittification is just a sweary euphemism for capitalism.”

    Take Amazon: to fix Amazon, we need policy solutions. We need to ban predatory pricing … We need to impose structural separation …We need to end its most favoured nation deal … We need to unionise its drivers and warehouse workers. We need to treat its rigged search results as the fraud they are.

    There’s a lot I don’t like about Cory Doctorow, and lots to criticise, but I do think he’s generally out too improve stuff.