Cory Doctorow
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. The same logic drives his redirection of creative workers away from copyright reform, which consolidates employer power, toward collective bargaining, which redistributes it, and shapes his EU antitrust framing. He dismantles systems, methodically and by design.
“When we dismantled these sources of discipline, we created what you could call the enshittogenic policy environment — the environment that rewards the firms that do the worst.”
“If creative workers are going to advocate for a new law, let's not make it a law that our bosses want — a new copyright law. Let's make it a law that our bosses hate: sectoral bargaining rights for all creative workers.”
“The European Union has started to regulate as though the problem was the power itself, not that Mark Zuckerberg was bad at being the social media czar for four billion people.”
Masters in Business: “BONUS: How the Internet Got Worse with Cory Doctorow”
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