late stage capitalism The pharma billionaires whose family company created the opioid epidemic are disintegrating into a bickering mess Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The world's worst money launderers are the UK, Switzerland and the USA Cory Doctorow
Business Leaked presentation from AI snake-oil salesmen to AAA game company promises horrific, dystopian manipulation of players to drain their wallets Cory Doctorow
gop Trump wants to cap lifetime Medicaid benefits, even for disabled people, the chronically ill, and people with Alzheimer's Cory Doctorow
class war Oklahoma schools go on 4-day weeks so teachers can work at Walmart on Mondays to make rent Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook hired a pollster to track Zuck's public image, but he quit because working for Facebook filled him with shame Cory Doctorow
politics Australia put an algorithm in charge of its benefits fraud detection and plunged the nation into chaos Cory Doctorow
class war Kimberly Clark says the Trump tax-cuts let it fire 5,500 US workers and pay out dividends to its shareholders Cory Doctorow
class war The world's richest 2000 billionaires could wipe out extreme poverty with one seventh of what they gained last year Cory Doctorow
class war California's lax usury laws means out-of-state loan sharks are charging desperate Californians 183% APRs Cory Doctorow
videos Sears Canada execs paid hundreds of millions in dividends before declaring bankruptcy and leaving 16,000 workers' pensions unfunded Cory Doctorow
class war Apple, Google add 45 minutes to commuter-bus run to avoid 280 highway, where the buses' windows keep getting smashed Cory Doctorow
class war To keep their bond-ratings, hedge-funds have to publicly demonstrate that they are the most ruthless of landlords Cory Doctorow
class war Trump's "consumer protection bureau" will let the $50B payday lending industry gouge the poorest Americans with triple-digit interest rates Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Leaseholders in building sheathed in flammable Grenfell cladding sent a £2m bill for repairs Cory Doctorow
class war Peter Thiel, "libertarian," wants to buy Gawker's archive, which would give him the power to censor stories he didn't like Cory Doctorow
uk Scottish police confirm requests from world governments to find money laundered through "the UK's homegrown secrecy vehicle" Cory Doctorow
uk UK tax authority, gutted by austerity and buried by Brexit, can't deal with the crime revealed by the Paradise Papers Cory Doctorow
Kids Publicly funded private school creates "poor kids' playground" for kids whose parents wouldn't contribute to new playground equipment Cory Doctorow
corruption Trump waives criminal punishments for convicted banks, including Deutsche Bank, to whom he owes $130,000,000-$300,000,000 Cory Doctorow
