"We watch them die bad, slow, painful deaths, and why? Because it’s always someone’s job to watch the money, and no one’s job to keep those people alive, who don’t have to die yet."

from cory doctorow, the ranrprieur who never dropped out

in this world there's always someone to watch the money, but not necessarily enough someone's to watch the people.... 

https://prospect.org/culture/books/2024-12-09-radicalized-cory-doctorow-story-health-care/

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250228598/radicalized/

Radicalized is fight club meet rainmaker meet kaczynski. 

And as for near-future-sf - ... so near future ........ omg

there's a lot of rot, and it seems the tao-of-pooh holds the cure, but we don't really know, do we ... ?

some day we'll read accelerando, but knowing me, by the time I do that, it will be yesterdays news ..

at some time in the past ( 2000-2004) , esr's catb site was an amazing place to be - read all about open systems, the brave new world, individual liberties, wearing guns, slinging linux code, being a MAN (spelt h-a-c-k-e-r ...).... that world vaporised in a trice, not even smoke left