I guess I'd just ask you to think about how we get all these policies gigafirms can milk. There's a lot of lobbying, and more pervasively but less overtly a whole infrastructure of "philanthropically" funded "education and research", that advocates "pro further enrichment of incumbent businesses and the billionaires who own them" as if it were the same thing as competitive capitalism. 1/
EDIT: added the scare quote "education and research" deserve
Steve Randy Waldman /
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2024-06-15 17:33:45
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