The Apple Questions Are the Best

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I love is like the French with the Mezino line and the Germans and that fighting will do a one And then a whole bunch of panzotanks just bash through the wall and you don't know what hit you I was gonna say generals fight the last war, but your immune system fights the last war is a propone. It's very timely given this current environment. The problems presented by Apple fall very neatly into the problems that antitrust is designed to address. We're not a single company in this course has zero marginal cost goods because that's the issue. Once you put zero in the equation everything just becomes very messed up and weird Right and antitrust should read my own irrigation theory

Ben and James discuss the antitrust subcommittee hearing, the problems of mixing antitrust and Aggregators, and how to think about regulation and democracy.

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