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They had been painfully disabused of the notion that their social inferiors were comforted by a life of forelock-tugging servitude:

https://doctorow.medium.com/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom-bfad6f3b35a9

How would Friedman convince these sharp-elbowed proles to go back belowstairs and stay there? Friedman had an answer:

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The End of the Road to Serfdom - Cory Doctorow - Medium

For most of the modern era, most people in the rich world have been poor, just like their parents and their children. Social mobility was more dream than reality. Most people were born to serve, as…

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Next came #RonaldReagan, who incinerated whole libraries' worth of regulations that protected the American people from corporate predators, gutted unions and ripped out society's steering wheel and brakes and set it rolling towards extinction's cliff, whose brink we can see growing closer daily:

https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/

Friedman's been in hell since 2006, but we live in Friedman's world.

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Cory Doctorow: The Swerve

We’re all trapped on a bus. The bus is barreling towards a cliff. Beyond the cliff is a canyon plunge any of us will be lucky to survive. Even if we survive, none of us know how we’ll climb out of …

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Each of these crises is terrible, and each one is an opportunity for ideas lying around to rush into the center currently occupied by Friedman's intellectual descendants.

80 years on, #WoodyGuthrie's 1943 New Year's Resolutions are a hell of a read, and not a day goes by that I don't think of number 19: "Keep hoping machine running."

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/news/a9130/woody-guthrie-resolutions/

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74 Years Later, Woody Guthrie's List of Resolutions Is All the New Year's Inspiration You Need

"Work more and better; wash teeth if any; write a song a day."

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My hoping machine runs on the creation and spreading of ideas lying around. Last year, #RebeccaGiblin and I published *#ChokepointCapitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back*:

https://chokepointcapitalism.com/

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a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism.

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There isn't an amount of lunch money that will get that kid lunch. You've gotta do something about the bullies. Hence the back half of *Chokepoint Capitalism* - ideas lying around for unrigging labor markets, to be deployed in a crisis.

On those lines: for the past month, @eff and I have been publishing a series called "Saving the News From Big Tech":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech

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Saving the News From Big Tech

Media is in crisis: newsrooms all over the world are shuttering and the very profession of journalism is under sustained ideological and physical assault.

^{Electronic Frontier Foundation}

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Here's the podcast episode:

https://craphound.com/news/2023/06/11/ideas-lying-around/

And here's a direct link to the MP3 (hosting courtest of the @internetarchive, they'll host your stuff for free, forever):

https://ia802608.us.archive.org/28/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_445/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_445_-_Ideas_Lying_Around.mp3

And here's a link to subscribe to my podcast's #RSS feed:

https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast

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