https://doctorow.medium.com/the-end-of-the-road-to-serfdom-bfad6f3b35a9 Get unlimited access Open in app Home Notifications Lists Stories --------------------------------------------------------------------- Write Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow Follow Nov 6 * 14 min read * Member-only The End of the Road to Serfdom Party's Over, Pleb. For most of the modern era, most people in the rich world have been poor, just like their parents and their children. Social mobility was more dream than reality. Most people were born to serve, as were their children. The ruling minority liked to imagine that the human oxen laboring in their fields and the women who cleaned their homes and cooked their... -- -- 36 More from Cory Doctorow Follow Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Twitter: https:// twitter.com/doctorow Love podcasts or audiobooks? Learn on the go with our new app. Try Knowable Recommended from Medium Bill Urich Bill Urich Young George Washington, The Calamity Kid [1] Natasha Leigh Natasha Leigh The 100 Clamiants of the Lost Dauphin | Louis XVII Andrew Gaertner Andrew Gaertner in Age of Awareness Is My Genealogy Hobby Racist? [0] Aliceinwonderland Aliceinwonderland Remembering Sophie Scholl and The White Rose Movement Gime Jone Gime Jone 7 Odd Things the Romans Used To Do [0] Marissa Paesang Marissa Paesang Olympic Logo Bid [1] Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow in Marker A Monopoly Isn't the Same as Legitimate Greatness Ida Tarbell's uses her writing to kindle a fire on a tree labelled "Standard Oil Traditional Policy of Silence." A panicked John D Rockefeller peers out of a squirrel-hole, screaming in alarm. Bill Urich Bill Urich May Day! May Day! [1] AboutHelpTermsPrivacy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Get the Medium app A button that says 'Download on the App Store', and if clicked it will lead you to the iOS App store A button that says 'Get it on, Google Play', and if clicked it will lead you to the Google Play store Get started [ ] Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow 115K Followers Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Twitter: https:// twitter.com/doctorow Follow Help Status Writers Blog Careers Privacy Terms About Text to speech