Chokepoint Capitalism

"People are feeling squeezed because of chokepoint capitalism: exploitative businesses creating barriers to competition that let them take over markets and extract an unfair share of value. This book teaches how to spot those chokepoints, and what we can do to blow them up"--

PART 1: CULTURE HAS BEEN CAPTURED

CHAPTER 1
Big Business Captured Culture

CHAPTER 2
How Amazon Took Over Books

CHAPTER 3
How News Got Broken

CHAPTER 4
Why Prince Changed His Name

CHAPTER 5
Why Streaming Doesn’t Pay

CHAPTER 6
Why Spotify Wants You to Rely on Playlists

CHAPTER 7
What the US Shares with Rwanda, Iran, and North Korea

CHAPTER 8
How Live Nation Chickenized Live Music

CHAPTER 9
Why Seven Thousand Hollywood Writers Fired Their Agents

CHAPTER 10
Why Fortnite Sued Apple

CHAPTER 11
YouTube: Baking Chokepoints In

PART 2: BRAKING ANTICOMPETITIVE FLYWHEELS

CHAPTER 12
Ideas Lying Around

CHAPTER 13
Transparency Rights

CHAPTER 14
Collective Action

CHAPTER 15
Time Limits on Copyright Contracts

CHAPTER 16
Radical Interoperability

CHAPTER 17
Minimum Wages for Creative Work

CHAPTER 18
Collective Ownership

CHAPTER 19
Uniting Against Chokepoint Capitalism

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index