Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back

This book is a call for change, for action, for Big Tech and algorithms to lose their title-sake chokehold over the exposure most people have. Driven by ever skyrocketing corporate profits, the authors talk about multiple industries of entertainments: social media, publishing, music -- the book illustrates how all this is resulting in systematic boredom on the part of the consumer, constrained buyers and investors, plighted workers and creators. One of the key focuses is how the ever-looming monopolization stabilizes and makes itself the norm. This is just the first part, the second part of the book is more hopeful, showing readers what can be done and organized to effectuate change. It brings forth the call to action for workers, creators, and consumers to ask for a world that is more fair, equitable, and entertains us better than this system.