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If you haven't, and you enjoy scifi/cyberpunk fiction, you should read Cory's book "Radicalized". Four short stories, all of them damn relevant to today.
The first story, "Unauthorized bread", is my fav. Hackers versus the coldness of corpos and shitty landlords.
I haven't read Unauthorized bread but you've just reminded me of Stallman's "Right to Read" very short story, which is about a future where, God forbid, you might read someone else's book without paying a licensing fee. Not the most amazing story, but it perfectly presaged things like scientific journals being paywalled today.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
I've seen people consider RMS an overly radical hippy, but man he is a true fucking visionary things he warned us about in the 1990s, 2000s are happening now