Chokepoint capitalism : how big tech and big content captured creative labor markets and how we'll win them back
Publication Information
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2022]
Physical Description
303 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Summary
"People are feeling squeezed because of chokepoint capitalism: exploitative businesses creating barriers to competition that let them take over markets and extract an unfair share of value. This book teaches how to spot those chokepoints, and what we can do to blow them up"--
Contents
- Big business captured culture
- How Amazon took over books
- How news got broken
- Why Prince changed his name
- Why streaming doesn't pay
- Why Spotify wants you to rely on playlists
- What the US shares with Rwanda, Iran, and North Korea
- How Live Nation chickenized live music
- Why seven thousand Hollywood writers fired their agents
- Why Fortnite sued Apple
- YouTube : baking chokepoints in
- Ideas lying around
- Transparency rights
- Collective action
- Time limits on copyright contracts
- Radical interoperability
- Minimum wages for creative work
- Collective ownership
- Uniting against chokepoint capitalism.