Cory Doctorow

So the digitization of nursing is,

has made it possible to enshitify nursing, not in the loose colloquial sense of things getting worse because of greed and a lack of market discipline and regulation, but in the specific technical sense of taking advantage of the technical characteristics of platformization to victimize nurses by eroding their wages.

Yeah.

So the thing that's going to disappoint you when I say this is that it's not a thing you can do as a person, right?

You can't just like shop your way out of the monopoly.

It's like trying to recycle your way out of a wildfire, right?

These are not individual decisions.

The reason billionaires want you to vote with your wallet is their wallets are thicker than yours and they're not very numerous as individuals.

So the only kind of election they can win is the one where you vote with dollars instead of people.

And so you're not going to like

make your consumption choices change this by all means, like make consumption choices that make you happy patronize your local bookstore instead of Amazon or like get off Twitter and onto Mastodon or blue sky, if that's what you prefer, but don't think that it's going to make a systemic change.

If you want to make a systemic change, you have to be part of a movement that changes the policy environment because it is the policy environment that gives rise to this, you know,

Elon Musk is not smart enough to be the cause.

He's the effect, right?

If Elon Musk overdoses on ketamine tonight, there'll be a succession battle of 12 horrible big balls.

And whoever emerges victorious will be indistinguishable from Elon Musk.

So we need to change the policy environment.

And the way you do that is by getting involved with

groups that work as a polity.

So as I said, I work for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, EFF.org.