Matt Levine
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143 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Matt Levine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The farmers take care of them for a couple of weeks and then the integrators take them back and turn them into chicken nuggets.
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Why is it like that?
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retailers like not owning their their real estate.
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It's like it's like weird that like the the capital requirement comes from the, you know, individual small farmers and like these big companies aren't making the capital investments.
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Right. 'Cause it's not like Uber.
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It's not like literally they're just like, you know, like a matching app.
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Like they have a lot of
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Yeah.
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Oh, you can be a farmer.
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You can like a farm.
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But it's like, no, really, you're just like following their orders.
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We talked about this on our podcast about farmers markets because there's like a Cornell project that like gives basically like market price information to people running stalls at farmers markets.
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And I sort of jokingly suggest that that that is analogous to like, you know, the DIJ brought a case against RealPage and the rental business.
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And then you talk about they brought a case against acrostats and the sort of big agriculture business.
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it's wild 'cause it's like you know, in the olden days, like you'd get together in a room and you'd be like, Oh, these are our prices, these are our prices and you'd like wink or whatever and it'd be like, Oh like we've agreed to set prices.
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Here there's no like explicit agreement, but it's just like if everyone has each other's prices, yeah, then there is an argument that I'm not really sure is true.
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It seems to be true.
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Yeah.
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There's an argument that that like allows them all to do.
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It's a coordinating mechanism.
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