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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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"[...] I understand your idea here, that you're selling us more freedom. but that's only because our appliances take away so much freedom to begin with, and then sell it back."

"But no one forced you to choose Boulangism. You chose a product that came with restrictions, and in return., you got a deal on your rent."

[...]

Salima managed a tight little smile. "You keep talking about choosing. This is the only place I could get into, and it took months. How is that a choice?"

"You were living somewhere before this place, right?"

"A refugee shelter."

"You could have chosen to stay there, right?"

She wanted these people gone. "I don't think that is much of a choice."

He shook his head. "The point is that you had a choice, and that's because appliances like ours made it economical for landlords to build subsidy units."

[...]

"We want to help you people, let you get more out of your lives, give you more choices."

What about the choice to jailbreak my things? She didn't ask it.

the classic legitimation strategy: create the conditions where people have no choice but to "choose" your product, and you can justify any shitty deal by reminding them that they "chose" your product (see also: Uber drivers)

and lol @ the idea that something needs to be "economical" (through generating extra revenue streams ... ie kickbacks) for private landlords to build and lease cheaper units. what a fantastic argument for public housing

—p.95 Unauthorized Bread (9) by Cory Doctorow 4 years, 11 months ago