A review by amber_lea84
Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we'll win them back by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin

4.0

This book is divided into two parts. The first part does a really excellent job of explaining where we are and how we got here. The second part is more about solutions and what we could do to fix the problem and that part is uhh, a combination of obvious solutions (Oh wow, unionize? Why didn't I think of that), solutions I'm not entirely sure I understand, and solutions that sound great but how do you even begin to bridge the gap between where we are and where we would have to get to make them happen? Like the first half feels like it's written by people who really understand the problem and the second half you can tell there are gaps in the authors' understanding of how the world works.

I would absolutely recommend this book, but just know the solutions part is kind of a let down. I wish that part had been shorter and they'd just spend more time telling us about how even more companies managed to get a stranglehold on profits. I feel like understanding how they've done it is half the battle. You can't fight a problem you don't understand.