Amazon's Wish List with Stacy Mitchell

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

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4.6 • 8.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What does Amazon want from us? For consumers, Amazon can be a frictionless gateway to find everything from bed frames to dog food, baby clothes to award winning original tv series. There’s nothing quite like it – a position they’re in not by accident but by design. Amazon became the behemoth we know it to be by targeting and absorbing any competition, leveraging favorable government treatment, and picking winners and losers in the marketplace. But there’s much more they’re doing behind the scenes, including deals they’ve made with the CIA, the Pentagon, and more. Stacy Mitchell joins us to tell us what's on the other side of the bargain we’ve made in exchange for convenience. Email us at [email protected] Tweet using #WITHpod Read more at nbcnews.com/whyisthishappening YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Who Broke the Internet? with Tim Wu released May 29

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0:00.0	the spectacle of like Gary Indiana, writing this letter to Amazon.
0:04.6	That's just this plaintiff plea for, you know, an injection of help.
0:09.3	When Amazon was never going to locate Gary Indiana, it's like a dominance play
0:14.1	that Bayzos is Lord Commander and like he sits upon the throne and he watches all
0:19.0	these sort of supplicants come and these supplicants are major,
0:22.8	American cities represent millions of people who have been elected by their
0:28.0	citizens to represent the public trust to come as if before the king or before
0:31.8	the emperor like shower their gifts upon his feet and say pick me, pick me
0:35.9	and then he'll like dainty pick one and it's just offensive to every last
0:40.3	democratic fiber of my being.
0:45.8	Hello and welcome to Why is this happening with me, your host Chris Hates.
0:53.1	Well, you probably know this, I guess, but I live in New York City, which is
0:56.7	where we do the sharpie night.
0:57.6	I'm actually from New York City.
0:58.9	I'm a city kid born raised Bronx and I've always been a city denizen,
1:03.6	which means in my entire adult life, I live in cities post college that Chicago,
1:08.1	Washington DC and New York.
1:10.0	And one thing about city life, particularly in New York, and I'm saying this in a room
1:14.5	with other New Yorkers, so I think we'll agree with me.
1:16.6	The basics of life are hard, just doing basic stuff, grocery shopping in New
1:23.2	York is harder than it is in other places and other places in America.
1:26.9	You come out of the house, you get in your car, then you drive to the grocery
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