Cory Doctorow

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

They're just not good planners of civilization.

They have personal interests.

This is one of the problems of letting people amass too much power is that even the smartest person is prone to folly.

Henry Ford at one point was worried about rubber for tires.

And so he was like, I'm gonna build my own rubber plantations in Brazil in a town called Fordlandia in the middle of the jungle.

And I'm going to- It was already called that.

No, no, no, he built it.

Oh, okay, wow.

And he was like, I'm going to take, I'm gonna build a copy of Dearborn, Michigan, which was the company town.

in Brazil.

And so he got the same firm of architects.

So he'd built this town in Michigan.

He was going to build it in Brazil.

And he was like, all right, I want you to make it ready.

And they said, OK, but southern hemisphere, right?

So we put the windows in the other side of the building.

I was like, don't be stupid.

We put the windows on this side of the building because it's going to be just like Dearborn.

And that was it, they did it, right?

Because like even the smartest guy is really dumb some of the times.

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