Cory Doctorow

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

So iPhones basically, iPhones are a minority in the market, but they're the super majority of the top decile.

So the 10% richest people in the world.

The vast majority of them own iPhones, which means that like any significant digital business that doesn't work on an iPhone doesn't work.

So they're effectively a market planner.

They're like someone in Moscow coming up with a five-year plan in 1976 for the digital market.

So either it's them,

and you have no leverage over them, all you can do is like, I don't know, go on Reddit and complain, or it's the government.

And I know people are like, well, what are we going to do about the government?

And right now, it's a very hard question.

But how many universes are there in which a giant corporation that you're angry at listens to you versus how many universes have we had in which the government is responsive to people?

It's still not a great track record for the government, but at least there is the nominal basis of being publicly accountable.

The people in these firms will tell you that they have a fiduciary duty.

to be terrible to you if that makes them a nickel more in profit, right?

Isn't that something that was misunderstood as well?

It's a piece of propaganda Milton Friedman came up with.

It's more like the problem with fiduciary duty is they act as though it's a bright line test, right?

You just say, well, what did the managers of this firm do?

Was that in accord with their fiduciary duty?

And that you can just like a Martian looking through a telescope could tell you from millions of miles away whether it was or wasn't fiduciary.

But like you fire half the people and you're like, well, I'm fulfilling my fiduciary duty by reducing our payroll.

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