Cory Doctorow
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1,125 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And a lot of these investors are like, it'd be really nice to get into a business whose success isn't determined by how many Trump coins I buy.
It'd be really nice to invest in something that wasn't AI.
You know, like the...
Like AI has got this very speculative thing.
Like maybe we'll figure out how to take a business that costs $1.4 trillion and makes $50 billion and eventually make it cost $50 billion and make $1.4 trillion.
We're not sure how that's going to happen.
If you give us $3 trillion more, maybe we'll figure it out.
But like meanwhile, like we know how to make money processing payments on the iPhone.
You just process the payments on the iPhone and you charge 3%, not 30%, and you lift the tax on economic activity.
And lots of people would like to have this, right?
Like if you're a newspaper collecting subscriptions through the iPhone and you flip from 30% to 3%, it's like you've got 25% more subscribers overnight, right?
You know, this is amazing possibilities.
Yeah, that's right.
So you've got this army of investors, and then you have all these technologists.
So the best and the brightest from all over the world have gone to Silicon Valley.
for two generations seeking fortune and fame to make a dent in the universe and so on.
Now they've all been chased out of the country by a guy, a gator in Oakleys, right?
So they're looking for something cool to do.
They know how to do this stuff.
They're smart, right?
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