By voting with your wallet, you are supposedly injecting information about your preferences and dispreferences into a vast, distributed computer we call "the market," which uses "demand signals" to decide how we live our lives.
This belief is incompatible with the idea of politics - that is, the idea that our lives can be shaped by representative democracy, deliberation, and/or solidarity.
3/
Cory Doctorow
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2026-05-21 15:08:35 UTC
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