Cory Doctorow
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We know how to do this, right?
It feels like the pyramids are easier to build than getting antitrust laws back in the day.
You know, it took 20 years from the time we passed the Sherman Antitrust Act to the time we broke up Standard Oil.
It's a long-term project, right?
The best time to prevent monopoly formation is before they form.
It's right now, during a mega-presidency.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is the best time to do it.
But we also need to regulate.
And we're going to have to do this, obviously, now at the state and local level.
So we have Lina Khan, who's now co-chair of Zoran Mamdani's transition team.
She's figuring out how to bring the same vigor that she brought.
So we have lots of opportunities there.
We need to make tech workers unionized again.
Because when tech workers had power, it was because they were scarce.
And then that scarcity went away, and they lost the power.
And your ability to say to your boss, I'm not going to shitify that product that I missed my mother's funeral to ship on time because the guy across the street will hire me, that went out the window when tech fired 500,000 tech workers.
Tech workers had the mistaken belief that they were temporarily embarrassed founders and that they didn't need a union, that they weren't workers.
They need a union.
Because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard