Steph | bookedinsaigon’s Reviews > Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back > Status Update

Systemic problems require systemic issues. The authors advise that, if their suggestions feel too ambitious or unrealistic, to remember that 40-50 years ago those ways of doing business with creatives was the norm.

Daaaamn, so even the EU’s GDPR ended up helping Google’s monopoly and making it harder for smaller companies to get a foothold in the market?

This is going to be the book that makes me finally give up Amazon for good. Ugh.

Chokepoint businesses spend money on capturing the market to benefit their stakeholders.

Well, fuck.

Today I learned that “monopsony” is when the market is controlled by the buyers (usually only one or several powerful, oligarchical ones), and not the sellers. Dayum.