This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we? - Cory Doctorow

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

Greg, what are you talking about? Ending corruption? Like there’s a version of this society that isn’t corrupt? Corruption isn’t the exception, it’s the norm. It’s baked in. The whole idea of using markets to figure out who gets what is predicated on corruption—it’s a way to paper over the fact that some people get a lot, most of us get not much, and so we invent a deus ex machina called market forces that hands out money based on merit. How do we know that the market is giving it to deserving people? Well, look at all the money they have! It’s just circular reasoning.

He was a pushy, self-righteous prig, but that didn’t mean he was wrong. Necessarily.