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Slate Money

Hipster Antitrust

Slate Money

Slate Podcasts

Investing, Business

4.11.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 51 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the hipster antitrust episode of Slate Money,

0:18.7

your guide to the business and finance news of a week in which a 32 year old

0:24.7

Vunderkind has taken over the FTC.

0:28.0

I'm Felix Hammond of Axios.

0:29.9

I'm here with Emily Peck.

0:31.8

Hello. I'm here with

0:33.3

here with Stacy Marie Ishmael.

0:35.0

Hello.

0:36.1

And we are going to talk all about Lena Khan,

0:39.8

who is the new chair at the FTC and is a quite astonishing person. We are also going to

0:47.2

talk about big tech which is related to Lena Khan. We have a bunch of very natural segues

0:54.4

in this week's show.

0:55.8

We are going to talk about Amazon,

0:58.5

which is not just part of the big tech

1:01.4

and like whether it's bad conversation, but it's also part of the big tech and like whether it's bad conversation but it's also part of the

1:04.5

how does it treat its employees conversation we're going to talk about the big

1:08.2

investigation that the New York Times did into the New York distribution facility at Amazon. We also have a slate

1:16.5

plus segment on Mackenzie Scott the person giving away her billions in

1:21.6

astonishing ways.

1:23.0

Slate Plus, Emily and Stacey are both signed up members.

1:27.0

Yeah, I subscribe for Joel Anderson's Sloburn Podcast

1:29.9

and have renewed since.

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