Bookpile 1: Enshittification
Bookpile is short posts on Fridays about what I’m reading now and what I’m liking about it. In the first Bookpile, Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification.
Economics, intellectual property law, antitrust and the history of the Internet are all in this book, combined with sharp metaphors and enough humour to make it all fun to read. I guffawed out loud at his description of the “’Who can say where the fuck these rats came from?’ school of economics” which hits the nail on the head in describing the profound absurdity of accepting that we face certain conditions because they just are, not because choices have been made which have led to consequences.
At page 240 of 334, the positives are still only a glimmer, but I trust that he’ll get around to fulfilling the promise of the subtitle’s second half: What to do about it.
Come for a better understanding of what the term “enshittification” means, stay for the snark. Cory Doctorow’s work is always great, and this is a book everyone should read.
