Scan barcode
A review by matttlitke
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back by Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow
challenging
informative
4.5
Chokepoint Capitalism is really informative and well-cited. I think it's very wise and sympathetic to examine the exploitation of "culture" industries as the leading edge of where capitalism fails us. On one side, humans are driven to create and on the other, the consumption of art is something almost all of us take part in and have opinions about (Netflix, Spotify, Ticketmaster, etc.).
I also appreciate that the authors chose to give solutions and remedies instead of just explaining where we've gone wrong. The book as a whole really makes the reader question our systems and priorities as both creators and consumers of "value", and what value really means for our society beyond money.
I also appreciate that the authors chose to give solutions and remedies instead of just explaining where we've gone wrong. The book as a whole really makes the reader question our systems and priorities as both creators and consumers of "value", and what value really means for our society beyond money.
“It's not just about so few people having so much of everything, although that is plenty odious and offensive on its merits. The problem, as it is experienced moment by moment and day by day, is how little they have done with it, and how little what they have done with it has done for everyone else. That inequality, when compounded over time and amplified by the cretinous and absolutely joyless mediocrity of the people in whose accounts that compounding gets done, winds up not just freezing the world in place, but shrinking it to the size of their own incuriosity.” - David Roth
“The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world… there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.” - Albert Camus
“The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world… there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.” - Albert Camus