Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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So like we as the public, they as the workers, we need to form a bond because our class enemies are the bosses who want to fire workers and the automation pitchmen who want to lower the quality of the outputs in order to split the wage bill of those workers.
Well, someone's giving them the money for the money furnace.
Thus far, it's not you or me.
Like, you add up all the subscriptions, it's $50 billion a year.
So where's the rest of the other $950 billion coming from?
It's coming from Silicon Valley billionaires, financiers, Emiratis, lots of people who've got, I think, so much capital that they constitute a danger to themselves and others.
Well, like I say, there is an existential crisis that arrives in a growth company when it runs out of room to grow.
Just to give you a sense of just like how deadly it is for the market to decide that you can't grow anymore.
January 2022, Facebook announced that they had slightly fewer than predicted US signups in the previous quarter.
There was a $240 billion flash crash because the market was like,
Facebook stopped growing.
That means they're gonna start shrinking.
That means that they're overvalued because they're not a growth stock anymore.
They're a mature stock.
And of course, who's got the most Facebook in their stock portfolio?
It's Mark Zuckerberg, right?
It's the people making the decisions.
One of the interesting things about what might happen with AI after the crash is that we're going to have all these open source models that the companies have released and that are being refined in China and elsewhere.
And these turn out to be like a lot more powerful than we thought.
We can take these models that currently run kind of slowly on older hardware and we can make them a lot more efficient.
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