194 – Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (ft. Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow)
This Machine Kills
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The Art Markets and Creative Labor Markets
The book is broken up in the two parts. And unlike a lot of books of this kind, including my own, where it's kind of the last chapter is that here's what we can do about it. The creative arts battles are kind of ground zero for a certain kind of shell game that's played with workers. In the internet copyright fights, you've had this long running kind of bait and switch where they've said, your job as someone who's got a dog in this fight is to choose whether you're on team tech or team entertainment. If your champion wins, they will drop more crumbs off their table for you.
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