Full Description
Over the past two decades, corporations and venture capitalists have adjusted business models to change the digital world. As a result, the global economy has undergone a massive shift, changing the way we work, consume and pay for things. Under this new 'digital feudalism', we find precarious employment via digital platforms, we buy goods and services in perpetuity through subscriptions, and we pay for it all with debt.
Digital Feudalism explores this new moment in capitalism, and how reliant global economies have become on these processes of consumption, work, and debt.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Squid Game Reality
Chapter 2. Buy More, Own Less: Subscriptions and Unending Consumption
Chapter 3. Working on your own: Precarious labor in the gig economy
Chapter 4. Debt Peonage and Primitive Accumulation
Chapter 5. Amazon and Baron Bezos
Chapter 6. Unboxed: Content Creators and influencers
Chapter 7. Metaverse: enclosing new spaces
Chapter 8. From Patron to Patreon: Crowdfunding Information
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Fed-up While Locked Down
