In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with Matt Stoller, author of the BIG Newsletter and Research Director of the American Economic Liberties Project to explain what a monopoly is, why they're so pervasive, how America entered a "monopoly crisis," and what all of this means for Google, Apple, Meta, and the rest of big tech. Want to read the transcript of this episode? Go to <a href="http://wheresyoured.at/stoller">wheresyoured.at/stoller</a> BIG by Matt Stoller <a href="https://www.thebignewsletter.com/">https://www.thebignewsletter.com/</a> Matt Stoller on Twitter <a href="https://x.com/matthewstoller">https://x.com/matthewstoller</a>  Newsletter: <a href="wheresyoured.at ">wheresyoured.at </a> Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a>  Discord: <a href="chat.wheresyoured.at ">chat.wheresyoured.at  </a> Ed's Socials: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/edzitron">http://www.twitter.com/edzitron</a>  <a href="instagram.com/edzitron ">instagram.com/edzitron </a> <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social </a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@edzitron">https://www.threads.net/@edzitron</a> See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.