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politics Coronavirus scams prove a federal anti-price gouging law is needed — Amazon's VP of public policy Xeni Jardin
late stage capitalism Stock buybacks: how Wall Street has created "profits without prosperity" Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies Cory Doctorow
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corruption America's big box stores sucked up corporate welfare and killed Main Street — now they're ducking property tax Cory Doctorow
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Business Private equity bosses took $200m out of Toys R Us and crashed the company, lifetime employees got $0 in severance Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt Cory Doctorow
trumpism The FCC will move to kill net neutrality over Thanksgiving and it thinks that we'll all be too busy eating and shopping to notice Cory Doctorow
trump Why Trump's naked corruption is less interesting than conspiracy theories about Clinton Rob Beschizza
President Obama's tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns Xeni Jardin