Cory Doctorow on Nostr: I've written about the futility of "voting with your wallet." Billionaires love it ...

I've written about the futility of "voting with your wallet." Billionaires love it when you try to vote that way. Billionaires are 0.00004% of the population, but their wallets are 100,000x larger than average. So when we wallet-vote, their vote counts 100,000X more than yours:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/

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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/2026/05/21/purity-culture/#stop-fucking-that-chicken

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