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Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
Decoder with Nilay Patel
The Key to Breaking Those Choke Points
We've seen these choke points throughout history in the music market, when those record labels that I was talking about and those music publishers were the ones that controlled physical distribution into stores. What we've got to be doing to break these choke points, the philosophy we're going to be aiming for, is to put the conditions in place where we can support countervailing producer power in the hands of artists and investors. Digital technology is as old as neoliberalism, almost precisely asoliberalism. There's a much more parsimonious explanation for what happened to give these companies power over their workforce than the explanation that it has to do with digital lack of scarcity. That gave them bargaining power over their
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