brazil Buying sunglasses in Brazil requires a degree in psychological bargaining tactics Ellsworth Toohey
class war The Labour manifesto: transformation of the welfare system, fair conditions for workers, universal housing, home care for elderly, fully funded NHS, fair taxes for the rich Cory Doctorow
class war The right is bankrolled by self-interested one-percenters making long-term investments; the left, by one-percenters with "moral whims" Cory Doctorow
eff Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow
Business LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, movies and other works they create while working at the paper Cory Doctorow
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Business Ikea locked workers into a room and forced them to watch "scaremongering" anti-union powerpoints Cory Doctorow
Copyfight To fix Canadian copyright, let creators claim their rights back after 25 years Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Seattle passes America's most comprehensive labor protections for domestic workers Cory Doctorow
Business Citing bad publicity and internal dissent, Google announces it won't renew contract to supply AI for US military drones Cory Doctorow
law An upcoming Supreme Court ruling could force all workers into forced arbitration, deprived of the right to class lawsuits Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The US workforce is the most productive, best educated in history and unemployment is at an all-time low, but wages are stagnant Cory Doctorow