#1410 Anti-Monopoly Activism for a New Era
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 11 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Air Date 4/10/2021
Today we take a look at the need for a modern assessment of the corporate monopolies who dominate our online and offline experiences, including seeing the negative consequences of monopolies through a racial justice lens.
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Rebecca talks to Jeremie Greer--one of Liberation in a Generation's co-founders and co-exec directors--about centering grassroots leaders of color in the anti-monopoly movement, and reimagining the antitrust movement’s work through a racial justice lens.
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| 0:00.0 | During today's episode, I'm going to be telling you about a new podcast I think you should |
| 0:07.0 | check out. It's called Uneffing the Republic, but they don't say F-ing. So hear me out mid-show |
| 0:12.8 | when I tell you all about their most recent episode. And now, welcome to this episode of |
| 0:18.6 | the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall learn about the need for |
| 0:22.9 | a modern assessment of the corporate monopolies who dominate our online and offline experiences, |
| 0:29.5 | including seeing the negative consequences of monopolies through a racial justice lens. |
| 0:35.2 | Clips today are from exponential view, follow the money, off-kilter, and the Economic Security Project. |
| 0:48.9 | I asked Corey why it was that Western democratic governments appear to be ineffectual at meeting |
| 0:53.8 | a clear need of their constituents while appearing to be very competent at satisfying the |
| 0:59.3 | desires of corporate lobbyists. Here's what he had to say. I think that it's the concentration of |
| 1:05.2 | power into a small number of hands. So think about just industrial concentration, which is of course |
| 1:10.4 | very closely related to wealth concentration. The shareholders of monopolists are able to realize |
| 1:17.2 | dividends based on monopoly rents, so they do very well by themselves. And the contraction of |
| 1:26.1 | industries has been endemic for the last 40 years, and it's not a mystery why. We stopped |
| 1:32.8 | enforcing antitrust law. We adopted the theories of Robert Bork, who was Ronald Reagan's court |
| 1:38.4 | sorcerer, who said that we shouldn't enforce antitrust law except when we can prove a consumer |
| 1:43.7 | harm generally in the form of a higher price in the immediate aftermath of a merger acquisition |
| 1:48.7 | or other anti-competitive act. And now we're down to three or four companies in every industry. |
| 1:54.5 | An example of this from the British context that I always think about is what happened when David |
| 2:00.0 | Knot was the drugs are of the United Kingdom under the brown years. He is a psychopharmacologist, |
| 2:09.4 | evidence-based scientist, and he saw that the drinks industry was making its profit from binge |
| 2:17.9 | drinking, from dangerous binge drinking. And so David Knot did a randomized trial where he designed |
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