In this strong episode, Alabama Liberal connects the disintegration of treating customers right with the rise of stealth new monopolies you probably haven’t heard of. After eight minutes of recapping a depressing month for current events, the minutes fly as he makes the case that monopolies from tax preparation to dating apps to fast food to grocery stores to candy to Goliath Tech have complete opposite goals of their own customers, practically guaranteeing you won’t get what you actually want since it’s no longer beneficial for the monopoly itself to provide it. Along the way there are indictments against Apartheid Elon’s business “genius,” the general concept that business nepo-babies are smart, the Scrooge & Marley of our time (Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger), a world where one man could theoretically fund Ukraine’s defense (but won’t) while the Putin Caucus refuses it at the government level, and a lot more.
Excellent episode