47 min listen
Defend Apple Against the DOJ
Defend Apple Against the DOJ
ratings:
Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Mar 25, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
https://youtu.be/UPHqvTkKFcA
Podcast audio:
In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the recent announcement of the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Apple and analyze the injustice of criminalizing a company for giving customers an experience they want.
Among the topics covered:
Why the DOJ’s antitrust case against Apple is significant to all American business;
How Apple is targeted because of its business success, not its failures;
How antitrust is destructive by design and how it stifled Microsoft;
Ayn Rand’s analysis of antitrust as the “rule of unreason”;
Why you should call your legislator if you support businesses like Apple.
Mentioned in this podcast are Onkar Ghate’s essay “Drop the Antitrust Case Against Microsoft” and the New Ideal Live episode “Recent Antitrust Attacks on "Big Tech,” Ayn Rand’s lecture “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business” (also available in essay form in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal) and her essay “Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason,” which can be found in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought.
The podcast was recorded on March 22, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.
Podcast audio:
In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Elan Journo discuss the recent announcement of the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Apple and analyze the injustice of criminalizing a company for giving customers an experience they want.
Among the topics covered:
Why the DOJ’s antitrust case against Apple is significant to all American business;
How Apple is targeted because of its business success, not its failures;
How antitrust is destructive by design and how it stifled Microsoft;
Ayn Rand’s analysis of antitrust as the “rule of unreason”;
Why you should call your legislator if you support businesses like Apple.
Mentioned in this podcast are Onkar Ghate’s essay “Drop the Antitrust Case Against Microsoft” and the New Ideal Live episode “Recent Antitrust Attacks on "Big Tech,” Ayn Rand’s lecture “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business” (also available in essay form in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal) and her essay “Antitrust: The Rule of Unreason,” which can be found in The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought.
The podcast was recorded on March 22, 2024. Listen and subscribe from your mobile device on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or Stitcher. Watch archived podcasts here.
Released:
Mar 25, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Moral Frameworks for Addressing the Pandemic: In this episode of New Ideal Live, philosophers Aaron Smith and Onkar Ghate analyze a recent Bloomberg.com article, “How Coronavirus Is Shaking Up the Moral Universe.” That article surveys “some of the leading idea systems undergirding competing concep... by New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute