Cory Doctorow<p>Conservatives may deride the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/RealityBasedCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RealityBasedCommunity</span></a> as a drag on progress and commercial expansion, but even the most noxious pump-and-dump capitalism is supposed to remain tethered to reality by two unbreakable fetters: <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/auditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auditing</span></a> and <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/insurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insurance</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-</span><span class="invisible">based_community</span></a></p><p>--</p><p>If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/28/re-re-reinsurance/#useless-price-signals" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/11/28/re-</span><span class="invisible">re-reinsurance/#useless-price-signals</span></a></p><p>1/</p>