Slate Money - The Mobile Monopoly Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Google’s $5 Billion fine, NYC’s public transit woes, and WeWork banning meat on this week's episode with Emily Peck, Felix Salmon, and Anna Szymanski.
In the Slate Plus segment, Annie, Felix, Anna, and Emily go even deeper on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and economic illiteracy among politicians.
Email: slatemoney@slate.comTwitter: @felixsalmon, @Three_Guineas, @EmilyRPeck,
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the mobile monopoly edition of Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm Felix Salmon, joined as ever by Anna Shemansky. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello. |
| 0:25.4 | And by The Huffington Posts, one and only Emily Peck. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello. |
| 0:31.0 | And we are going to be talking about things on the move. |
| 0:36.2 | We are going to be talking about New York's slightly |
| 0:39.9 | fucked up. Is that a good technical term? I'd remove this slightly. Subways. If you've been to |
| 0:46.6 | New York in the past couple years, you might well have a horror story of being on the subway. |
| 0:52.7 | And we're going to see if that is fixable. |
| 0:55.7 | We know it's bad. The interesting question is whether it's fixable and whether it is fixable |
| 1:01.8 | by a person. And we're going to talk a little bit about this Brit who's come in to try and fix it. |
| 1:07.9 | We are also going to talk because it's an awesome story about what I called in a slate piece |
| 1:13.8 | performative vegetarianism and which is which is weWork's latest corporate policy certain people |
| 1:24.0 | think it's incredibly stupid though Though certain people would include myself. |
| 1:35.7 | But mostly, or initially, at any rate, we are going to talk about a rather large fine, which Margarita Vestaga, the European Community or European Union Antitrust Chief, |
| 1:43.9 | who's kind of awesome, has brought down on Google. |
| 1:51.2 | Emily, what's the background here? |
| 1:54.1 | The background is, I think about two years ago, the EU started this investigation. |
| 1:59.8 | The issue is Android, which is Google's mobile |
| 2:03.1 | operating system, which is ostensibly free for developers. It's open source. Open source. But |
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