That's why #
Spotify is so hellbent on getting you to listen to #
playlists, not albums. Your favorite albums are the same everywhere, but playlists are integrated into services.
But there's another side to this playlistification of feeds: playlists and other recommendation algorithms are #
chokepoints: they are a way to durably interpose a company between a creator and their audience. Where you have chokepoints, you get #
ChokepointCapitalism:
https://chokepointcapitalism.com/13/
a book about why creative labor markets are rigged - and how to unrig them Competition is supposed to be fundamental to capitalism.
chokepointcapitalism.com