Welcome to the podcast Organized Money. You can listen to today’s episode on Apple on Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
This week in antitrust we boot up some quality trolling with guests Will Bucher and Judson Crump, attorneys and former gamers who are taking on the Steam gaming platform monopoly. If you or someone you love has downloaded a game to play on a computer or phone, then you’ve paid the 30% toll the Valve Corporation takes for every download. If thirty percent sounds familiar, you’re on to something David and Matt get to, while also unlocking a bonus level of solutions in which our guests turn arbitration weapons against the corporate overlords.
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Loved this one. Are there other businesses still using arbitration that would be vulnerable to these tactics? What about Ticketmaster?
Wild to see how lawyers from the gaming world are taking on monopolies when half the politicians won’t even touch it. Feels like the new resistance is coming from unexpected places, the gamers, the coders, the ones who know how systems break because they’ve been inside them. ⚡🎮