Original Air Date 12/3/2022
Today, we take a look at the mega-companies that touch all of our lives and the monopolistic practices that have been developed to keep power and wealth concentrated with the few while the rest of us get screwed.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Tech Monopolies - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Air Date 6-13-22
John Oliver discusses tech monopolies, and how to address the hidden harm they can do.
Ch. 2: How Ticketmaster Is Destroying Live Music - More Perfect Union - Air Date 10-19-22
Ticketmaster is destroying live music. Their scam fees now cost as much as 78% of a ticket. They control the events, the venues, and even the artists. There’s a movement pushing the Justice Department to take on its monopoly. Cory Doctorow breaks it down.
Ch. 3: Corporate Greed Is Causing Inflation But The Rich Blame Workers - Thom Hartmann Program - Air Date 11-16-22
Not since the Great Depression have corporate profits soared so high. But it is not enough to satisfy them. More than 54% of the inflation America is experiencing is caused by record-setting corporate profits.
Ch. 4: Why Food Prices Could Skyrocket Thanks to This Grocery Merger - More Perfect Union - Air Date 11-14-22
Safeway, Ralphs, Smiths, Harris Teeters, Shaws, Kings, Randalls, and about 25 other brands, will all be owned by a single company if the Kroger-Albertsons merger goes through. And that’s really bad news for the prices you pay.
Ch. 5: Chokepoint Capitalism (with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin) - Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - Air Date 11-1-22
Novelist Cory Doctorow and intellectual property expert Rebecca Giblin discuss their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, which documents the increasing tensions between extractive corporations and creative laborers.
Ch. 6: Making The Case For Abolishing Billionaires - MSNBC - Air Date 11-21-22
"One after another, four of our best-known billionaires laid waste to the image of benevolent saviors carefully cultivated by their class," Anand Giridharadas writes in a recent New York Times column.
Ch. 7: Elon Musk Is An Idiot (and so are Zuck and SBF) - Adam Conover - Air Date 11-23-22
Tech CEOs aren't geniuses, and here's the proof.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 8: Chokepoint Capitalism (with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin) Part 2 - Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - Air Date 11-1-22
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 9: Final comments on how regulation helps stop financial scams
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
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#1564 How Marketing Has Shaped Our World for the Worse
Bonus Sample #271 Infantile Engineers
#1563 Putting Our Kids to Work for Corporate Profits
#TBT #1080 Corporate media’s fight for legitimacy in the age of Trump (Throwback)
#1560 Immigration Crisis: Biden vs. Trump, Undocumented Workers, Anti-Immigrant Hate, Migrant Abuse, and the Economic Fallout of Florida's New Law
#1559 Company Towns are a Bad Solution to a Real Problem
#TBT #1133 Understanding Authoritarianism (Throwback)
Bonus Edition #270 I'd Like to Phone a Friend
#1558 States of Hate, Right-Wing Legislatures Go Full-Tilt While the Courageous Fight Back
#1557 Tactics and Counter-Tactics of the Struggle for Labor Rights
#1556 Oil Wealth and Oligarchy, Over 100 Years of Polishing Unredeemable Reputations
#1555 The Kids Are Not Alright (Boys, Girls, Culture and Social Media)
Bonus Sample #269 Tell Good Stories and Jokes
#1554 Destroying Education and Democracy for Fun and Profit
#1553 The Nuremberg Trials of J.K. Rowling: Misogyny and Authoritarianism in the Bizarro World
#1484 Elon Musk is Not Your Savior and He Is Actually Awful (Repost)
Bonus Sample #268 Making Corrections
#1480 The Cyberwar Did Not Begin with Cyber Pearl Harbor (Repost)
#1552 Invasion of Iraq, 20 years later
#1476 The Disinformation War We Are Not Fighting (Repost)
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