Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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All of a sudden there's this scale.
It's like they put a little sail, like a little handkerchief size sail and suddenly the ship that's been becalmed in the doldrums for 20 years is like scudding across the seas, right?
And so there is this like great upwelling of anger at what's happened.
And I think it's because we decided that we wouldn't stop monopolies from forming and absent some kind of muscular government action, monopolies will always form.
that monopolies, it's not because they're efficient, but because the parochial interests of the people who own firms are always better served by cooperating with other people who own large firms by, for example, buying each other and so on, than they are by competing.
When you compete, Peter Thiel calls it wasteful competition, you erode your cash basis.
When Google gives Apple $20 billion a year not to enter the search market, it's like the Pope dividing up the new world.
They're saying, well, we're not going to compete with you where you are.
You're not going to compete with us where we are.
The $20 billion costs us less than it would take if you were competing directly with us.
But it also saves you more than you would have to pay in capital expenditures if you were to develop your search engine.
So we're all good.
This is us sort of conspiring.
Yeah.
Adam Smith, who's the father of capitalism.
He has this famous quote, you know, men of the same trade seldom gather, but the conversation turns to a contrivance to fix prices.
Right?
Like, there's just this incredible temptation.
And so without...
State intervention, this will happen.
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