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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2025-01-06 at 15:10

In a hierarchical society, class separates groups of people just as rigidly as time and space, and is every bit as useful a buffer as the other two forces.

Until it isn't.

Eventually - once you've banned abortion, once you've taken all the "controversial" books out of the library, once you've made affirmative action illegal - you reach the layer of non-negotiable culture war demands that the rich can't buy their way out of.

Like immigration.

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