Cory Doctorow

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

Those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or they're being injured at three times the national rate in an Amazon warehouse.

That's how tech bosses treat the workers they're not afraid of.

And the last thing we need to do is bring back interoperability.

We need to make it legal to change how the technology that you use works.

So that, for example, you can unlock your printer so it'll take generic ink.

You know that because it's illegal to change your printer, to modify your printer,

Four printer companies have raised the price of ink to the point where it is the most expensive fluid you can buy today without a license as a civilian.

At $10,000 a gallon, it would be cheaper to print your grocery list with the semen of a Kentucky Derby winning stallion, right?

So we need to just bring back interoperability too.