Winning and Losing in One-Click America
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Ralph welcomes journalist, Alec MacGillis, author of “Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America” about how Amazon continues to suck the life out of Main Street and what can be done about it. And the director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, Dr. Michael Carome, gives us the latest on our approach to the Covid pandemic. Plus, we answer a listener about how to avoid flying on Boeing’s 737 Max.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:05.3 | Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour. |
| 0:15.3 | My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host, David Feldman. |
| 0:18.4 | Hello, David. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello, Steve. |
| 0:20.4 | And the man to the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:21.9 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:22.9 | Hello. |
| 0:23.4 | This is going to be a real treat, listeners. |
| 0:26.2 | It is. |
| 0:27.2 | And Amazon is what we're going to be talking about for part of the show, for the first part |
| 0:31.9 | of the show. |
| 0:32.9 | And it's the largest corporation in the world we've ever known. |
| 0:35.8 | It's valued at over $1 trillion. |
| 0:38.2 | Amazon is hardly the first American corporation to expand, monopolize, and eat up everything |
| 0:43.1 | in its path. |
| 0:44.9 | But it may be the most diversified. |
| 0:46.8 | Our first guest today is a journalist who, in the grand muck-breaking tradition of |
| 0:50.6 | Uptonston Clare, is popping the bubble wrap, the swaddles this mega corporation. |
| 0:56.2 | His name is Alec McGillis, and his book is called Fulfillment. |
| 0:59.6 | In it, he explores what happens when Amazon moves into your neighborhood, and when their |
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