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   Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 02:25:52 JST Cory Doctorow

   Once you learn about the "collective action problem," you start seeing it everywhere. Democrats - including elected officials - all wanted Biden to step down, but none of them wanted to be the first one to take a firm stand, so for months, his campaign limped on: a collective action problem.

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