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Their corporate strategists take the position that any ambiguity should be automatically resolved in their favor, with the burden of proof on accused debtors, not the debt collectors. The scumbags who lost your deed and stole your house say that it's up to *you* to prove that you own it. And since you've just been rendered homeless, you don't even have a house to secure a loan you might use to pay a lawyer to go to court.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

It's not solely that the usurers want to cheat you - it's that they can make more money if they don't pay for meticulous record-keeping, and if that means that they sometimes cheat us, that's our problem, not theirs.

While this is very obvious in the usury sector, it's also true of other kinds of massive mergers that create unfathomnably vast conglomerates.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

The "curse of bigness" is real, but who gets cursed is a matter of power, and big companies have a *lot* more power.

The chaos, in other words, is a feature and not a bug. It provides cover for contract-violating conduct, up to and including wage-theft. Remember when Disney/Marvel stole money from beloved science fiction giant #AlanDeanFoster, whose original #StarWars novelization was hugely influential on #GeorgeLucas, who changed the movie to match Foster's ideas?

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