Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It
192 pages
English language
Published 2025
Keeping in mind that Doctorow is a self-described leftist crank, I find some hope in his rebellious policy ideas. His accounts match my lived experience pretty well, and help me understand the politicians and policies that shaped it.
There are plenty of reviews of this book so go read one of those instead.
This book helps to explain why almost everything on the internet---and, more generally, our capitalist world---is getting worse. There are things that can be done about it but I'm not sure that there is the political will in the world to make it happen.
There are plenty of reviews of this book so go read one of those instead.
This book helps to explain why almost everything on the internet---and, more generally, our capitalist world---is getting worse. There are things that can be done about it but I'm not sure that there is the political will in the world to make it happen.
If you can get past a few inaccuracies in the numbers, the book powerfully illuminates what is going wrong with a large part of the world and the corporations that run it.
