April 14, 2023

Examining capitalism's chokepoints (Changelog Interviews #535)

1 hour 27 minutes

This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that’s climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, “We’re all fighting the same fight.”

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Featuring:

Cory Doctorow – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Buy Cory’s books

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TikTok’s Enshittification

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What is Chokepoint Capitalism?

Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs

Cory on Twitter explaining “chickenization “

Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won’t sell

The Memex Method

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