The Disruptor
Contrarian and drawn to the edge; challenges the settled answer.
Cory Doctorow reads as The Disruptor because his target is always the architecture, never the individual. Coining 'enshittogenic' to name the policy structures that corrupt markets, he attacks enabling conditions rather than the executives who exploit them.
“Hello, everybody. I am not Cory Doctor Rebecca Giblin. I'm Neil Patel, I'm the editor of the Verge. I used to love the people who have asked me to help talk about the book today. But introduce yourselves, Corey, and Rebecca. Sure. I'm Corey Doctorow, and I'm one of the authors of this book, along with Rebecca.”
“That you can only settle with that thing. So, like, the reason U.S. money is money is you have to pay your taxes with it. And if you don't pay your taxes, they put you in prison, which means that if you have US dollars, they will be valuable to someone because they're going to need US dollars on April 15th.”
“Really look at the technical when they say, Oh, this is how it happened, you need to ask what was the technical mechanism by which the lack of scarcity caused that. And if you can't find the explanation, I think you should look somewhere else. And I think we have a lot of those explanations. I'm not saying digital played no role, right?”
“One of the wild things about international copyright law is often things that are actually good in the American system that other countries try to enact, the U.S. Trade Representative will show up and go like, that's communism. So the South African parliament has been trying to pass fair use law for years.”
Masters in Business: “BONUS: How the Internet Got Worse with Cory Doctorow”
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