— Cory Doctorowthe ultra-rich (and the states they have suborned) have a fundamental understanding that the more unfair a society is, the less stable it is. The more unstable a state is, the more its ruling class have to expend on private security. No captain of industry wants to arise from his sarcophagus of a morning, only to discover a mob of hoi polloi building a guillotine on his lawn.
Replicated under Fair Use from Pluralistic: Become unoptimizable (20 Aug 2025) by Cory Doctorow.