Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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Someone must have had sex with a chicken first, right?
And so the way we got these laws, it wasn't like someone came down off a mountain with two stone tablets and said, we have to stop these firms from engaging in merging.
They were in a situation, if anything worse than the situation we're in.
right uh and and this you know from the 1890s to the to the through the gilded age right this was this was the the period in which you had the robber barons the trust the the trusts that's why we call it trust busting so what used to happen is like john d rockefeller would say hey everybody who makes oil we're going to start a new company called a trust and if you've got a 16 share of all the oil in the country you get a 16 share of the trust and if you've got 20 you get 20 and then i'm going to run the trust
All the oil companies will be one company that I'll run.
They'll have different names, but I'll run them all.
And just we'll disperse the profits according to your market share.
As of now, there was like a whiskey trust and a steel trust and a coal trust and everything in the country was run this way.
Uh,
The first antitrust law, 1890, Robert Sherman, he was a senator, he's the brother of Tecumseh Sherman, a guy burned down Atlanta.
And he said, if we would not tolerate a king, we should not tolerate an autocrat of trade with the power to fix the price of the necessities of life.
And so we get this law in 1890, it was in response to the rail companies, but by 1912, we used it to break up Standard Oil.
And the way that we broke up Standard Oil, which was the most corrupt, most oppressive company in the history of the world.
I think even like right up there with like the Dutch East India Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, really horrible, horrible firm with a stranglehold on the planet.
You may have seen these old editorial cartoons of like a fanged octopus whose head kind of looks like an oil derrick with its arms wrapped around the world.
Yeah, Gilded Age.
There are also weird Nazi images that are also this that are bad, but this was before the Nazis.
Okay, got it, got it.
Half a century before the Nazis.
So this woman, Ida Tarbell, who was the first woman in America to get a science degree.
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