How to Succeed on Amazon

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Moira Weigel: I think it really makes two important points for us right first of all there are all these narratives around decentralization in relation to the tech industry. But if Amazon is reshaping the way that those small businesses work in the first place to serve its own ends regardless of what happens from an antitrust perspective then how much further ahead are we really getting you know with antitrust measures in relation to Amazon? She says maybe seeing it this way also helps us reframe the question a bit so that we're saying not how do we protect competition or a kind of ideal of market competition but rather how do we ensure that the whole global economy isn't drawn into this process of aggrandizing

Paris Marx is joined by Moira Weigel to discuss the third-party sellers who supply many of the goods sold through Amazon, how the company’s policy decisions reshape small businesses to act like mini-Amazons, and what that means for regulatory responses.

Moira Weigel is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard Law School, and a founding editor of Logic Magazine. Her most recent book is Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk about What They Do--And How They Do It, co-edited with Ben Tarnoff. Follow Moira on Twitter at @moiragweigel.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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