Is There a Static View of the World in 2018?

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Two years ago you couldn't have imagined an app like this coming along to compete totally Well, i'm just saying That is a good example of why By declarations that these companies are dominant and will never have competitors should be like you should be careful. It turns out that the competitive space Particularly in a world where you don't control access You only can seek to control attention of hundreds of millions or billions of individual actors Is probably more fleeting than it appears. We've just handled it so poorly that we're losing that opportunity.

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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