Episode 16: Vaccine Patents, Tesla's Travails, and the Persistence of Race Science ft. Angela Saini
The Received Wisdom
Are You Referring to the Big Three?
It's a bigger question about whether the older companies that have been around for a long time who have weathered all of these wars around regulation might approach regulation slightly differently than, for example, Tesla. Are you referring to what you might call legacy car manufacturers? And if you're Tesla, you would say, well, you can't trust the big three because they've all had regulators in their pockets since the 1930s. There is a bit of that. But also, there's companies like Waymo, for instance, who have expanded their operations massively and fit into a very different regulatory conversation. You see them and a few of the other Silicon Valley companies organizing lobbying. They have their own
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