Amazon Billing Amazon for Amazon feat. Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin come on to discuss their new book “Chokepoint Capitalism,” which details how large companies have identified critical bottlenecks in the creative Labour process to suck the value and life out of them like vampires, and what can and has been done about it. Also, a startup! U.K. economic implosion to be discussed in this week’s bonus. Buy Rebecca and Cory’s book here! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/ If you’re looking for a UK strike fund to donate to, here’s one we’ve supported: https://www.rmt.org.uk/about/national-dispute-fund/ If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes, early releases of free episodes, and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture *MILO ALERT* Here are links to see Milo’s upcoming standup shows: https://www.miloedwards.co.uk/live-shows *AUSTRALIA ALERT* We are going to tour Australia in November, and there are tickets available for shows in Sydney: https://musicboozeco.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/3213de46-cef7-49c4-abcb-c9bdf4bcb61f and Brisbane https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/trashfuture-live-in-brisbane-additional-show-tickets-396915263237 and Canberra: https://au.patronbase.com/_StreetTheatre/Productions/TFLP/Performances *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Trashfuture are: Riley (@raaleh), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), Hussein (@HKesvani), Nate (@inthesedeserts), and Alice (@AliceAvizandum)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this episode of TF. It's a free one.
0:17.8	It's the free one. I preempted Milo's awful habits of doing.
0:22.4	I wish he was back on vacation.
0:23.3	What you did really was you teed me up for.
0:26.1	And I'm here in studio with Milo and you're saying we have Alice and joining us very special guests from very far away in a room that appears to be full of computer detritus like a hacker's bedroom from the
0:38.7	1990s. It is, of course, it is Corey Doctor O and Rebecca Giblin, the authors of chokepoint
0:44.2	capitalism, Corey returning champion. Rebecca, first time challenger. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much.
0:49.8	It's a delight to be here. And we are dialing in from the 1990s from a hacker's bedroom.
0:56.3	Two of them enter.
0:57.6	Only one of them may leave.
0:59.4	Will Corey retain his champion's belt?
1:02.8	Or Rebecca, the challenger, take it off.
1:04.8	Or will Rebecca win the champion's belt that gets you access to the free well drinks?
1:12.4	Free filter coffee and assorted danishes
1:14.3	in the trash chuteer lounge.
1:16.3	Don't even challenge me like that.
1:18.5	It was very, very close last night to ending
1:20.5	up in an arm wrestling tournament in
1:22.7	Soho House. So anything
1:24.8	that happened.
1:26.4	To be fair, that's got to be the easiest arm wrestling tournament in history.
1:30.3	How is snap a wimps left and right?
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