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Nathan Lewis • Gold: The Once and Future Money (Agora Series)
However, these systems have an unfortunate tendency to concentrate power often excessively,
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Property and mastery: nothing else counts. Earth will be monetized until all trees grow in straight lines, three people own all seven continents, and every large organism is bred to be slaughtered.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
If we act now, we can make sure that democratic values—freedom of speech, individual economic privacy, free enterprise, and free capital markets—are encoded in the digital future of money.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The problem, in other words, isn't intermediation – it's power . The thing that distinguishes a useful intermediary from an enshittified bully is power . Intermediaries gain power when our governments stop enforcing competition law. This lets intermediaries buy each other up and corner markets. Once they've formed cozy cartels, they can capture the... See more
Cory Doctorow • Pluralistic: Middlemen Without Enshittification; The Bezzle Excerpt
“Cognitive capture is a better description of this phenomenon than crony capitalism.”53