[$] Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

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The fourth and final keynote for
Everything Open 2023 was given
by Professor Rebecca Giblin of the Melbourne Law School, University of
Melbourne. It revolved
around her recent book, Chokepoint Capitalism,
which she wrote with Cory Doctorow; it is “a book about why creative
labor markets are rigged — and how to unrig them
“. Giblin had planned
to be in Melbourne to give her talk in person, but “the universe had other
plans”; she got delayed in Austin,
Texas by an unexpected speaking slot at the South by
Southwest
(SXSW)
conference, so she gave her talk via videoconference from there—at
nearly midnight in Austin.