What Cory Doctorow thinks about capitalism

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and activist, a special adviser to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the author of the daily link blog Pluralistic. He coined the word "enshittification" in 2022 to name the way platforms decay, and it was the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2023.

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1. 21 Jan 2023

   Our readingThere is no attention economy: attention cannot serve as money, so a platform must always convert it into cash at somebody's expense.

   Their words"Monetize" is a terrible word that tacitly admits that there is no such thing as an "Attention Economy." You can't use attention as a medium of exchange.

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