Cory Doctorow

So that might mean, for example, a distribution system that's open to all players.

So not locking yourself into YouTube, having an RSS feed, not...

You know, being behind Spotify's paywall or behind one of these other services paywall, which means that you're vulnerable to Spotify applying pressure to you.

It might mean unionizing your workers, because if you're the kind of person who can rationalize your way into saying, as I've seen so many people do, right, your VC shows up and says, you've got to make things bad for the business or bad for your users.

And if you don't, I'm going to pull the plug and you're going to have to fire your workers.

And you're like, well, I convinced all these people to come work for me.

They're like betting their kid's college fund and their mortgage on it.

You know, I am a uniquely good guy.

And so I can save all those jobs and live to fight another day.

Well, if your workers are unionized, they can say, we're not going to do this bad thing

to our users.

You can structure as a B Corp.

You can structure as a worker co-op.

You can use open licenses for your material that are irrevocable.

So even if you're a venture capitalist or you in the future decide to do something bad, you can't affect that retrospectively on your content archives.

Those are all your possibilities, right?

And, you know, I'm not saying they're easy, but they are simple, right?

And in the same way that, like,

You can't trust anyone who says, well, I'll just not make mistakes and that's how I'm going to drive you home safely or run this business safely or run this country safely.

I think you can't trust yourself if your only plan is I'm not going to make any mistakes.