Oh I came back to this thread to post this one! I really enjoyed it when I read it. I think Doctorow wrote a sequel but I haven't read that - any idea if it's worth a read?

Now that I'm an adult I'm not sure this book would hold up but reading The Blue Nowhere by Jeffrey Deaver is what originally made me decide to pursue a career in InfoSec!

They got you talking about them on social media though, which is basically the entire point!

I avoid these kinds of problems by being lazy as fuck

I don't think anyone doing this is going to give a shit about this

Makes me wonder what kind of food they eat in Marielda tbh

You're welcome to that opinion, the point is that the small business owners complaining about capitalism can't opt-out of capitalism. That doesn't make them wrong to criticize it. Your "observation" is lazy and without merit

Yes, we live in a capitalist society. How do you propose we opt-out of capitalism?