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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

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One of my bedrock beliefs is that capitalists *really* hate capitalism. They name their beloved institutes after the likes of Adam Smith, but they ignore everything Smith had to say about the necessity of competition to keep markets from turning into monopolies: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/commissar-merck/#price-giver 1/

2026-05-06T11:11:52.673Z