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2025 Reading Goal

93% complete! flyby has read 14 of 15 books.

Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow: Chokepoint Capitalism (Hardcover, 2022, Beacon Press)

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the …

Excellent

Excellent read mirroring Varoufakis‘ Techno-Feudalism. Really wordy, other readers may like it. In general I do not have any hope that the average dumb consumer will stand up and be disciplined enough to change the system. You get what you pay for …

Yanis Varoufakis, Varoufakis, Yanis.: Technofeudalism (Hardcover, 2023, Random House Children's Books)

In his boldest and most far-reaching book yet, world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis argues that capitalism …

Enshittification reloaded

Exzellent piece of work, absolute surprise to see Varoufakis getting to the same conclusions as Cory Doctorow. What Cory calls enshittification leading to chokepoint capitalism, for Yannis is the mechanism leading to techno-feudalism. Brilliant and great insight.

However: how to get out of it remains absolutely unclear