83: A Framework for Breaking Up Big Tech with Michael Guimarin

In which Wolf and Michael Guimarin discuss the nature of monopolies and whether we can let giant tech companies keep their thumb on the scale of social balance.

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CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 –Are big tech companies monopolies? App Store hegemony.
00:04:26 – Is the U.S. Treasury a "colony" of Goldman-Sachs? Microsoft's Office domination.
00:08:20 – Big Tech outsources innovation.
00:09:23 – The history of corporate breakups.
00:14:25 – Why break up Google? Is Duck Duck Go even competition?
00:19:32 – Demand-side economies of scale: the Network Effect and Metcalfe's Law.
00:21:27 – Does Google pay people to not compete with them?
00:23:46 – How do you break up Big Tech companies without making American tech less competitive?
00:28:43 – Big Tech's thumb on the scale.
00:31:14 – A framework for breaking up Big Tech: pay attention legislators!
00:32:22 – First Pillar: Disallow Big Tech from owning and operating their own data centers.
00:36:25 – Second Pillar: Disallow Big Tech from running ISP/telephony networks. Section 230.
00:47:51 – Third Pillar: Enterprise license agreements should be made transparent and require disclosure filing.
00:54:19 – Fourth Pillar: Big tech should give money to open source via blind foundations.
00:57:15 – Pitches and closing remarks.

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