Enshittification Nation (With Cory Doctorow)
Author and activist Cory Doctorow has a grand unifying theory of why everything sucks now — and how to fix it.
Lever Time · David Sirota
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Show Notes
From flying to online shopping to using social media, everything seems to be getting worse. It’s all — pardon our language here — shittier.
According to today’s Lever Time guest, that’s no accident. Cory Doctorow is the author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. In this episode, Doctorow explains how enshittification works, how it’s infected our online spaces, and what we can do to stop it.
Plus, as an exclusive bonus to our paid subscribers, click here for the rest of David’s conversation with Cory Doctorow. They talk about why Americans are trapped on Facebook or Microsoft Office and how Donald Trump is using tech companies as weapons in his trade war. Doctorow also offers a few simple solutions to stop our world from going to shit.
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