Intro

Welcome to the final boss of scams in the age of technology: Enshittification 

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This is our final episode of Gotcha! — our series on scams, how they work, and how technology both amplifies and obscures them. For this final instalment we have Cory Doctorow on to chat about his new book Enshittification.

Is platformisation essentially just an industrial level scam? We will deep-dive the enshittification playbook to understand how companies lock users into decaying platforms, and get away with it. Cory shares ideas on what we can do differently to turn tide. Listen to learn what a ‘chickenised reverse centaur’ is…

Further reading & resources:

• Buy Enshittifcation now from Verso Books!
• Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow
• On The Media series on Enshittification
• Pluralistic — Daily Links and essays by Cory Doctorow
• Conservatism Considered as a Movement of Bitter Rubes — Cory on why conservatism creates a friendly environment for scams
• How I Got Scammed — Cory on his personal experiences of being scammed
• All of Cory’s books
• All (Antitrust) Politics Are Local — the entry to Pluralistic that Cory wrote on the day of recording