How Amazon Reshapes Small Business to Serve Itself w/ Moira Weigel

Tech Won't Save Us

Paris Marx

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4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Paris Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss the third-party sellers who supply many of the goods sold through Amazon, how the company’s policy decisions reshape small businesses to act like mini-Amazons, and what that means for regulatory responses. Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, and a founding editor of Logic Magazine. Her most recent book is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Ta...

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0:00.0	Big versus small is not the best way to cognize the kind of power that Amazon has and how Amazon uses its market power.
0:07.4	In addition to eliminating small businesses through competition, Amazon sort of elicits or calls into being all these new kinds of small businesses that are optimized for Amazon and do this important work for it.
0:36.6	Yeah. that are optimized for Amazon and do this important work for it. Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us.
0:38.4	I'm your host, Paris Marks.
0:39.6	And before we get to this week's episode, I just wanted to let you know that this month, April of 2020, is the podcast's third birthday.
0:47.6	That's right, all the way back in April of 2020, I started Tech Won't Save Us with the goal to ensure that people had a more critical take on the
0:55.6	tech industry after seeing how so much of the reporting on this industry happens. And it's pretty
1:00.7	clear that a lot of people wanted that too, because plenty of people now listen to the show,
1:05.2	and it's so fantastic to see that. Over the past three years, we've done more than 160 episodes with nearly as many guests.
1:12.8	There are more than 40 transcripts available on our website of episodes that we've done.
1:17.3	And all of that is to try to give you a better understanding of this industry to ensure that
1:21.8	you have critical perspectives on the companies, the technologies, and the powerful people
1:26.3	who are involved in it. And that's all
1:28.3	to ensure that, you know, you're not falling for the PR madness that is going on with so many
1:33.6	of these things. And so that you have kind of clear eyes when looking at the industry and can assess
1:39.2	what it's trying to sell you again and again and again. And it's been fantastic for me to be able to put this
1:45.0	podcast together, to be able to have these conversations and from listeners like you to hear
1:49.8	how much you're enjoying all of this. So this month, to celebrate the podcast's third birthday,
1:54.9	I'm asking listeners like you to consider supporting the show on patreon.com slash tech won't save us.
2:00.6	And that's because, you know,
2:02.1	to make the show, it's great to have listeners and it's great to have public support for the show,
2:06.5	but we also still need that financial support so we can continue putting this together every week
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