Post #4277006
2026-07-30 12:56 UTC
One thing Mamdani's campaign impressed on every politician is that people are *pissed* about affordability and they will support anyone who stands up for the public against AI-equipped price gougers. The problem of course is that those price gougers are highly organized and have deep treasuries (stuffed with money they stole from us). With surveillance pricing, politicians face a familiar conundrum: if they do the thing that's popular with voters, they'll enrage donors.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-30 12:56
One way to cut this knot is to enact legislation that *seems* to address the problem, but stuff it with so many loopholes that it does nothing. This lets you declare yourself the people's champion without doing anything to protect them from the donors who prey on your voters. That's the approach they took in Maryland: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/30/something-must-be-done/#there-ive-done-something 13/