Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Technopolitics

(...) there’s nothing intrinsic in the idea of a tool for harvesting a tomato that is bad for workers – or tomatoes. It’s because we let bosses choose which tomato harvester was suitable for use that we ended up in this place. Put the pickers in charge of that decision and we’d have very different harvesting technology – and far more delicious tomatoes.

https://locusmag.com/feature/commentary-cory-doctorow-technopolitics/