Showing posts with label For the Win. Show all posts
Showing posts with label For the Win. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Solidarity in an Illicit Trade: Are Gold Farmer Unions Really the Answer?

Cory Doctorow’s For the Win
Full book available for free download on his website and in hardcover for $11.04 on Amazon.

There is no doubt that Cory Doctorow is an idea-driven writer. His novels are showcases for prognosticating on society. In his latest effort, For the Win, Doctorow presents two main ideas: that the internet poses a unique opportunity for the working class to share the organizational advantages previously reserved for the ruling/owning class and that all modern economies, and perhaps simply all economies, are fundamentally unstable because at base they depend on the mass belief in their solidity to function.