Listen to Stacy Mitchell on the Strong Towns podcast, where she talks with Strong Towns president Chuck Marohn about how concentrated corporate power is gaining even more ground during the pandemic. They discuss that while small businesses have been extraordinarily adaptable to the challenges of Covid-19, these independents face monumental obstacles, especially when the Fed has doled out so much money to big businesses. They also talk about how Amazon has fundamentally harmed startups and independent businesses and what it would look like if Congress broke up Big Tech.
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