What Is the Deeper Effect of Predatory Pricing?

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Thomas O'Neill: How is a company able to lose money for a decade and it still continue to operate? He says the way that of this vis cash allows them to underprice their product for, like, in the case of uber, now, like over a decade. So then it becomes really difficult for taxi companies, but also co operative alternatives, to kind of operate when uber can offer such a lower price,. he writes. "Their business model should not be based on surveillance capitalism"

Paris Marx is joined by Mathew Lawrence and Thomas Hanna to discuss the problems with platforms, why antitrust alone is not enough to fix them, and how we can encourage the creation of democratic platforms that serve the public good.

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