For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity: Competition can't to solve the hospice problem.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-13 12:55:53

When are at to the library, you are a patron, not a customer. When you are at school, you're a student, not a customer. When you get health care, you are a patient, not a customer.

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Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: For-profit healthcare is the problem, not (just) private equity (13 Nov 2025)

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Hey look at this

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* Enshittification youtube.com/watch?v=CcceOOPdKZ… (h/t r/LateStageCapitalism)

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Yesterday's threads: A tale of three customer service chatbots; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-11-12 06:21:34

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: A tale of three customer service chatbots; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/11/12/sor…

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Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025)

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

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Picks and Shovels

New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new...

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Cardiff: Hay Festival After Hours, Nov 13
hayfestival.com/c-203-hay-fest…

* #Oxford: Enshittification and Extraction: The Internet Sucks Now with Tim Wu at Rawley House (Oxford Internet Institute), Nov 14
oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/event…

* #London: Enshittification with Sarah Wynn-Williams and Chris Morris, Nov 15
barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/…

* #London: Downstream IRL with Zack Polanski, Ash Sarkar, and Aaron Bastani (Novara Media), Nov 17
dice.fm/partner/tickets/event/…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #London: Enshittification with Carole Cadwalladr (Frontline Club), Nov 18
eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversa…

* Virtual: Enshittification at the Internet Archive, Nov 21
eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-ens…

* Virtual: Enshittification with Vass Bednar (Vancouver Public Library), Nov 21
crowdcast.io/@bclibraries-pres…

* #Toronto: Jailbreaking Canada (OCAD U), Nov 27
ocadu.ca/events-and-exhibition…

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* #SanDiego: Enshittification at the Mission Hills Branch Library, Dec 1
libraryfoundationsd.org/events…

* #Seattle: Neuroscience, AI and Society (University of Washington), Dec 4
compneuro.washington.edu/news-…

* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
rjjulia.com/event/2025-12-08/c…

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Recent appearances:

* How to dis-Enshittify the world (Blood In the Machine)
bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-to…

* Reimagining Digital Public Infrastructure (Attention: Govern Or Be Governed)
youtube.com/watch?v=F8JuXDfDtB…

* Enshittification and How To Fight It (ILSR)
whoshallrule.com/p/enshittific…

* Big Tech’s “Enshittification” & Bill McKibben on Solar Hope for the Planet
writersvoice.net/2025/11/cory-…

* Enshittification and the Rot Economy with Ed Zitron (Clarion West)
youtube.com/watch?v=Tz71pIWbFy…

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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

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