Cory Doctorow

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1,125 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

It's evil and funny.

It's very funny.

Let's go into like food.

I don't know as much about this.

I mean, obviously there's the genomic stuff that we were talking about.

Mostly what you've got in food is just monopolization on the grocery side.

Okay, got it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So there's a law, the Robinson-Patman Act that...

They stopped enforcing 20 years ago, but the FTC tried to bring a case against Pepsi and Walmart under it.

And basically it was created when A&P grocers started to take over the country.

And what A&P would do is they would demand extremely deep dish discounts from wholesalers.

And then to make it up, the wholesalers would raise prices on everyone else, on the mom and pops.

So it accelerated the collapse of the mom and pops into A&P.

And these two congressmen, Robertson and Patman said, oh, we can't allow this.

This is bad.

So they banned this conduct.

And it was the decision under Reagan to stop enforcing this that created Walmart.

So this is what Walmart does.

They demand preferential discounts that then result in wholesale increases in all of their competitors' stuff.

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