The true heir of Abraham Maslow

Attributed to Abraham Maslow (albeit possibly apocryphally):

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Which leads us to Cory Doctorow:

Poverty and its associated problems – hunger, poor health, lack of education and disenfranchisement – are fundamentally information problems.

Embarrassing for everybody. And he got paid for it, as well.

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