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
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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?
— Dec 10, 2025 10:09AM
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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.
— Dec 11, 2025 03:07AM
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Everything is even worse than I'd thought.
— Dec 10, 2025 02:20AM
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This is going to be the book that makes me finally give up Amazon for good. Ugh.
— Dec 09, 2025 11:59AM
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Chokepoint businesses spend money on capturing the market to benefit their stakeholders.
Well, fuck.
— Dec 08, 2025 11:16PM
Well, fuck.
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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.
— Dec 08, 2025 10:15PM
