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This is very true. I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism, which is especially prevalent here in #Texas
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> Zelle is incredibly capricious
This is analogous to saying the same thing about FB or Titter. The core problem is not the behaviour of these companies or the people running them. But that we've allowed our payments systems and social networks to be privatised by proprietary tech companies. Which neoliberalism has allowed to form mon/olig-opolies and mon/olig-opsonies, and enshittify services for everyone.
See Doctorow's new book. In both cases, it's a collective action problem.
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> I think the thing that keeps collective action at bay is the culture of toxic individualism
Ae, and this is not an accident. Capitalists and their lackeys have been scattering toxic individualism seeds around since the counterculture era. Doctorow writes about this too, in the context of Milton Friedman's comments about making sure their ideas were the "ideas lying around":
https://archive.org/details/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_445
#podcasts #CoryDoctorow #MiltonFriedman #ToxicIndividualism