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Cory Doctorow

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

And one guess which half of the National Labor Relations Act has been most vigorously enforced.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

So Trump thinks that we fired the referee and so that means all the players have to leave the field.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

He's wrong.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

When you fire the referee, it means there's no more rules, right?

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

And there's a reason that fascists attack unions first.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

It's because the opposite of fascism is solidarity.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

And EFA.EFF.org.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

Buy long poles to dig through rubble with canned goods.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

So let me advance a theory of the less bad and more bad bubble, if not a good bubble.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

So some bubbles have productive residues and some don't, right?

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

So Enron left nothing behind, right?

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

Now WorldCom, which was a grotesque fraud, some of you will remember, right?

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

They raised billions of dollars

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

claiming that they had orders for fiber.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

They dug up the streets all over the world.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

They put fiber in the ground.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

They didn't have the orders for the fiber.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

They stole billions of dollars from everyday investors, people who just wanted to go through their old age without starving to death or not having a roof over their head.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

The CEO died in prison and it was good riddance, but there was still all that fiber in the ground.

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

Right.