societal shift from capitalism (where riches come from profits) to feudalism (where riches come from rents): your rights to your actual property (the physical stuff you own) are trumped by corporations' metaphorical "intellectual property" claims
@johnverdon He's very spot-on.
@AskTheDevil Cory Doctorow is amazing
@johnverdon He draws a lot of the same conclusions I do about things like serfdom, capitalism, rent, so I assume that means he's very smart.
😈
@AskTheDevil LOL - that's my assumptions too :)
@johnverdon To be fair, it is more that I have made certain observations over a very long period of time, and he has a way of drawing connections and conclusions that help me make better sense of what I have also seen.
He seems to have taken "the noosphere" as his realm of study. The impacts and interactions of technology, philosophy, human activity, grifts, strategy, across the spectrum.
@AskTheDevil yes completely agree - he's also grasped the ideas of modern monetary theory and the need for strong public domains
@johnverdon Things are better when they belong to everybody, and where instead of seeking the authority to control and punish others, we seek to empower and uplift and share our power.
Tyrants use the combined power of their subjects for their edge.
The rest of us learning to _share_ power will make us much mightier.