Cory Doctorow
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Jul
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These are very specific policies that had this very foreseeable outcome.
When companies can take advantage of those policies to mistreat you and do well, then I'd say that that's in shitified.
So it's not really about which of these symptoms they're showing.
It's about what's happening when they exhibit these symptoms.
Well, so there are four things that discipline companies, this is the term economists use, discipline is like when something bad happens to you because you've done something bad.
And there are four forces that discipline companies historically, and we can see how they've all been eroded.
So the first one, as you mentioned, is competition, right?
It's not, it doesn't matter if you're the only restaurant in town and you serve a bad meal, if there's nowhere else to go, it kind of doesn't matter.
People are still going to show up and eat there.
I mean, we've all had this experience on the other side of the TSA checkpoint where you really do have
effectively the only restaurant in town, right?
And they know that you have nowhere else to go.
This is that bit Lily Tomlin used to do on Saturday Night Live where she'd pretend to be a Bell operator, an AT&T operator.
She'd do an ad for the Bell system and she would end it with, we don't care, we don't have to, we're the phone company, right?
So you understand how that would happen.
Now, what happened to competition
It's not a mystery.
So these economists that we would call them neoliberal economists, they're the economists sort of associated with Reagan, but they really held sway for like 40 years.
They had this radical theory of competition and monopoly, what in America we call antitrust, which is the law that tries to prevent monopolies and break them up when they occur.
And they said monopolies are actually good.
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