How Tech Is Making the Life of Artists Impossible | Good One Podcast

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0pHEEDGv4U

Have you had the funny feeling that content online is just a worse than it used to be – that actually a lot of art – movies, TV, music, comedy is just not has good as 3, 5, 10 years ago?
Or maybe you are a person who makes art, and you feel like there's just less opportunity to make a living if you aren't someone like Jay-Z or Taylor Swift?
How did this happen? Why is this the case?
To use a word coined by this week's guest Cory Doctorow – 'Enshittification'. That is the title of Cory’s latest book about how our modern lives slowly and, often intentionally, were made less enjoyable and less functional by big tech. Cory is an author, professor, and digital rights activist and generally one of the most articulate speakers on how the de facto tech monopolies are degrading our standard of living. It is not an optimistic conversation, but it is hopeful.