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Published · transcript-backedJason Furman: belief
26 Aug 2020 Conversations with Tyler Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth
“I would much rather have competition. I think what benefits consumers is choices, lower prices, more innovation.”
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- Speaker
- Jason Furman
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 26 Aug 2020
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…But if you take Facebook, is there consumer harm? The WhatsApp page — it’s totally clean and pure. It’s beautiful. There are no ads on it. There are no ads on it because it’s part of Facebook, the bigger company. So aren’t customers better off with Facebook “the company” owning, say, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook “the page”? I would much rather have competition. I think what benefits consumers is choices, lower prices, more innovation. The price is zero, right? There’s a lot of social networking. I can go on Fortnite. I can recruit people through my blog. I can email you. I can text you on my cell phone. So many ways to network with people.…
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