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ElevenLathe | 12 days ago

Presumably the answer is the same as nearly every real problem we face today: organize. Yes, it will be tough to organize around this problem specifically, but imagine a truly muscular working class movement like once existed in the early 20th century in many places: they raised armies, published their own newspapers, ran radio stations, started universities, even ran cooperative factories, all under the active opposition of capital. Surely a modern version of such a movement would recognize the need for secure, trustable, affordable, ad-free computing devices and invest accordingly.

It will take decades to build this power, just like it did then, but the alternative (which we are witnessing in slow motion in the meantime) is too grim to let stand.

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