Cory Doctorow

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.

Speaking as someone who's made a lot of terrible mistakes in his life, that is not a plan.

Sure.

Yeah.

So, you know, in the other parts of the discipline story, there are parts that are distinct to tech, like the fact that we have this interoperability we talked about before, where you can kind of fix things that have shipped from the factory broken just by changing how they work.

And it's much easier in a digital platform than it is an analog because like,

If I write the software that disincentivize your printer, I can just like send you a copy.

You don't have to do it.

Whereas like if your KitchenAid mixer only takes KitchenAid accessories and they're charging a fortune for them, you know, I can't like machine a thing that allows you to put a Miela accessory in your KitchenAid and then like email you the file.

Right.