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Hipster Antitrust

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Stacy-Marie Ishmael discuss Lina Khan and tech antitrust, Anna Wiener’s New Yorker piece on Silicon Valley, and the New York Times investigation into working at Amazon


In the Plus segment: MacKenzie Scott gives again.


Mentioned in the show:

The Separation of Platforms and Commerce,” by Lina M. Khan for the Columbia Law Review

Does Tech Need a New Narrative,” by Anna Wiener for the New Yorker

The Amazon That Customers Don’t See,” by Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise, and Grace Ashford for the New York Times

The Latest Pandemic Supply Shock: Child Care Workers” by Patrick Sisson for Bloomberg CityLab

Seeding by Ceding” by MacKenzie Scott


Email: slatemoney@slate.com

Podcast production by Jessamine Molli.


Twitter: @felixsalmon, @EmilyRPeck, @s_m_i


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the hipster antitrust episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of a week in which a 32-year-old

0:24.6

Wunderkind has taken over the FTC. I'm Felix Hammond of Axios. I'm here with Emily Peck.

0:31.7

Hello. I'm here with Stacey Marie Ishmael. Hello. And we are going to talk all about Lena Khan, who is the new chair at the FTC and is a quite

0:44.7

astonishing person.

0:45.9

We are also going to talk about big tech, which is related to Lena Khan.

0:51.7

We have a bunch of very natural segways in this week's show.

0:55.6

We are going to talk about Amazon, which is not just part of the big tech and whether it's bad conversation,

1:03.3

but it's also part of the how does it treat its employees conversation.

1:07.3

We're going to talk about the big investigation that the New York Times did into the New York distribution facility at Amazon.

1:15.3

We also have a Slate Plus segment on McKenzie Scott, the person giving away her billions in astonishing ways.

1:23.1

Slate Plus.

1:24.2

Emily and Stacey are both signed up members.

1:27.0

Yeah, I subscribe for Joel Anderson's

1:28.6

Slow Burn podcast and have renewed since. I subscribe because there's no ads, which is actually

1:35.7

really nice, and also because I am a total advice column junkie, and Slate, I think everyone agrees,

1:43.1

has the best advice columns with the craziest questions

1:45.8

that are just, you have to, you have to read them. So I finally bit the bullet and signed up.

1:51.4

So much as I want you guys to listen to Emily Peck's ads, because Emily Peck does the best

1:56.3

ad reads in the history of broadcasting. If you, for some reason, don't like Emily Beck's ads,

2:02.4

it's $1 a month to get started on Slate Plus,

2:06.1

and then $59 a year.

2:07.8

It's really not so much money.

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