Tootfinder

Another banger. Collapsing the lack of appropriate regulation and competitive forces as an absence of fear / pressure.
And then the juxtaposition with how that same lever is the tool deployed on us as workers / consumers.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112313657764687802…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Anyone who says "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product" has been suckered in by Big Tech, whose cargo-cult version of markets and the discipline they impose on companies. -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/22/kargo-kult-kaptialism/#dont-buy-it 1/

It is alluring and maddening to imagine there is one trick- one move- you could pull to fix the problems.
Maybe the baby would sleep through the night if you gave it a bath?
And maybe it would- but then next time it wouldn’t.
Parenting a baby with rules is basically a cargo cult.