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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 …

Plenty to think about

I really enjoyed this book. I was a bit skeptical at first, because the plight of people in the creative industry hasn't previously caught my attention. However, Doctorow and Giblin do a good job of using creatives to illustrate a larger problem of how corporations use anti-competitive measures to build chokepoints accrue dominant status in almost any given market, at the expense of both labor and the consumer. This book has given me a lot to think about.