Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back – Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
You should read this book and become upset at tech giants, in case you weren’t already.
Economics
Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World – Charles Koch
If you hate Charles Koch you should steal a copy of ‘Believe in People’ and read it. It’ll just make you hate him more.
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Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present – Yanis Varoufakis
Regardless of the author, writing a Utopia has always been a bad idea.
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Economix – Michael Goodwin and Dan E. Burr
Want to understand the economy? Look elsewhere. Want to understand economic history? This may help.
Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison
The word of the day is: Malthusian
The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mcafee
If you come into a book looking to answer just one question, you may come out of it disappointed.
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Talking to my Daughter About the Economy, or How Capitalism Works – and How It Fails – Yanis Varoufakis
I don’t know if distilling economics gives you correct simplifications, but it does make good reading.
The War on Normal People – Andrew Yang
I’ve been concerned about the problem of automation for years, and considered a universal basic income a solution. This book is a much larger look at the issue.
Makers – Cory Doctorow
Makers by Cory Doctorow really seems to cement the point that Doctorow just really hates the Disney corporation.
Failures in Polymathy 