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Barry Lynn
Barry Lynn directs the Open Markets Institute. Previously, he spent 15 years at the New America Foundation researching and writing about monopoly power. He is author of" Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (Wiley 2010) and End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday 2005).
https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/staff/barry-c-lynn/
His new book is Liberty From All Masters; The new American Autocracy Vs. The Will of the People It's a powerful analysis of the power of monopolies in the US and the world.
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What's your goal for this book?
You talk about Dangers of ignorance of who you are and what shapes you and how others shape youThat this is why we now face the gravest threat to liberty and democracy in America and to equality and individual dignity, since the days of slave power.
We are blocked off by the monopolists missing the keys to the technological commons which would enable us to see what the problems are and what we need to do. "We are free to wander in the shadows of other people's walls.
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Neoliberal competition philosophy replaced by system establishing power in the hands of the few.
Think of yourself as a consumer, not a citizen.
History of liberty, thinking and connection.
How has the US transition from Bottom-up determination to Top-down
Evolution of walmart
Post WW2 Eisenhower, Europe, Japan, long term
Ayn Rand Milton Friedman
Most dangerous time since the civil war.
For 200 years we were expanding liberty
Betrayed by Dems and RepublicansReagan, Carter, Clinton
Union damage, Glass Steagal, Trade Deals
Obama failed. Why?
Trump's flawless catastrophe?
Power Google, Amazon and Facebook have is terrifying. They have to be broken up.
They are a threat to democracy.
Platform breakup people also include Twitter, Apple, Microsoft too.
Cicilini committee
The ignoranceof who you are and how others shape youis why we now face the gravest threat to liberty and democracy in America and to equality and individual dignity, since the days of slave power.
We are blocked off by the monopolists missing the keys to the technological commons which would enable us to see what the problems are and what we need to do. "We are free to wander in the shadows of other people's walls.
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Biden administration?
Most important: taking from all powerful middlemen all license to discriminate in the delivery of their services.
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