Quinn Slobodian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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Well, and the amazing thing is when there are rumblings of that changing, when there was discussion of antitrust lawsuits under Lina Khan at the FTC, for example, that was the point that the Silicon Valley class just like set their hair on fire and said, like, we don't care how much we lose by tying ourselves up with this fascist who's coming back into office.
It's worth it because the worst thing that could happen would be capital gains getting taxed.
differently or any kind of antitrust happening.
So that's, you know, you're right that you mentioned earlier that we're rebuilding monopolies.
It's one of the least observed things about the 21st century that's very strange is the number of companies in the United States is getting fewer over time instead of more.
For decades, there'd be more companies, but now you're getting these new conglomerates that buy up the competition.
A new rival appears, they acquire them.
They buy out all of those.
Exactly.
So what they fear is, yes, any erosion of their increasingly concentrated ability to direct all investment power in the country.
And there needs to be a kind of filter put back there, whether it's through electing more left-leaning people and charges of state
pension funds or the return to the kind of basic shareholder democracy provisions that existed until recently, even in something like the NASDAQ.
Part of the reason Musk moves from Delaware to Texas is because he can get away from shareholder lawsuits.
He can get away from any kinds of that bottom-up avenues.
So even speaking in those very conventional terms of making capitalism work better, it seems like there must be some common ground to cobble together a transformative economic program.
Yeah, I mean, that's the end result of, of course, decades of kind of right to work legislation, too.
So there's that, you know, we now have it compounded.
We have all of the problems of neoliberalism and all of the problems of muskism now thrown on top of that.
And there's actually new frontiers of this being developed every day.
Javier Millet, as aforementioned, fanboy of Musk, has just pushed through a new legislation in Argentina for corporate rights for non-human led corporations.
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