Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism by Cory Doctorow
Survival of the richest by Douglas Rushkoff - An investigative journalist finds that billionaires are aware of the world coming to an end and instead of helping stop it, have decided to see how they can make it so they benefit from it.
BLOG
https://pluralistic.net/ - Cory Doctorow's blog of links.
Basically everything he does is relevant, but this in particular for us, as it relates to Creative Commons licences, and the scam/shakedown from a company called Pixsy. Essentially you can use anything that has a creative commons licence as long as you attribute the creator, pixsy has been sending letters asking for money (150k in some cases) from people who did attribute the images but made a typo, or left a comma out due to a loophole in the creative commons 2.0 licence rules. They tried to shaft him using this despite him being a co-creator of creative commons licences.
MUSIC
Albums
Operation Mindcrime by Queensryche
Songs
Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen
The onus is on the landlord by Joe Lycett
STANDUP COMEDY
Josie Long's entire standup career
PODCASTS
Adam Conovers podcast and Adam Ruins everything (especially the episodes on health care and billionaire philanthropy)
OTHER
This article on how King Charles won't pay inheritance tax on £15.2bn of assets. like everyone else has to.
This wisecrack video on how the US has discovered children working in dangerous jobs and instead of making it stop are trying to legalise it, as no-one wants to do crappy jobs for crappy pay, and instead of increasing the pay, they want to make the work-start age 14.