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Anti-capitalism isn't about "fixing" capitalism, or "changing" it, it's getting rid of it outright. It's about moving to a different system altogether. He might not be pro-this-flavour-of-capitalism, but he's certainly not advocating for anything actually different.

Everything he's saying is working within the bounds of capitalism. He doesn't want it to go away. It's not "a specific sin", it's that I fundamentally disagree with him because he thinks passing a couple laws will work, when there's actually no way to fix this within the confines of capitalism.

And he's not missing anything; as others have said, he's more interested in selling books and speeches (which getting people to use his specific terminology, and evangelizing on his behalf, drives) and profiting from this system.

If that isn't clear enough, then I really doubt I'm the one to best explain it. At least, not in the confines of toots on a social media site.

@pip@infosec.exchange I've read all that, and sorry-not-sorry, no that's not a solution. That's tweaks to a system that's broken by design. It's pro-capitalist, and I'm staunchly anti-capitalist.

So yeah, I'm going to keep saying that capitalism needs to die - because it does - and repeating that he shouldn't be listened to, because while the ideas may be "good", they're only that in the context of a system that's beyond fucked and needs to be ripped out by the roots.

I'm calling him out because he's wrong: you can't fix what's broken by design, and thinking that you can is stupid.

@pip@infosec.exchange So his solution to the root of the problem, which is capitalism, is...?

To be incredibly plain: Cory Doctorow is pro-capitalist and just wants things to go back to "the good old times when capitalism was our friend" and doesn't actually want to fix the fucking root of the problem, which requires getting rid of fucking capitalism, not "making it almost indistinguishably less fucked".

Reminder: Cory Doctorow isn't worth listening to. The problem isn't "enshittification", it's Capitalism, and while he believes you can fix both (his latest is saying the former can be fixed by legalizing reverse engineering, which while needed is absolutely not enough).

Allowing reverse engineering and/or right-to-repair don't stop companies from building absolute trash, and wouldn't stop companies from doing anticompetitive shit anyway.

Capitalism needs to die.