@pluralistic I've spent nearly all of my career as a software engineer saying, verbatim, "code is a liability" - makes me wonder from whom I stole the phrase. Articles capturing the nuance of a specialist field for more general audiences are quite rare, but this time I get to be the one who says it's legit.

@pluralistic

If the investors get bailed out by having Donald Trump print money into their pockets, how well can the house of cards be propped up?

And doesn’t even matter I’m trying to work this out myself because the scenario I see the current administration will use the spending power of the United States to simply make the investors whole.

All of that money will be furnished to the wealthiest people with no economic activity associated with it

@pluralistic

Thank you. Thank you.

I keep trying to find ways of putting this into words myself, but your assets vs liabilities distinction captures it far better than I was able to:

https://ides.dev/notes/the-burden-of-responsibility/

I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937

And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:

https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/

Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/

And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:

https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/

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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-live-at-tattered-cover-colfax-tickets-1976644174937

And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:

https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/

Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/

And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:

https://nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doctorow-and-tim-wu-enshittification-and-extraction/

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