What Big Tech, the Taliban, and 13th Century Robber Barons Have In Common

Amazon, Google, and Apple collect some 30% for being middlemen. Companies and attorneys general are ready to revolt.

Steve LeVine
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7 min readSep 10, 2019

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WWhen 13th century merchants needed to move valuable cargo around western Europe, they had a single realistic option — water, averting a…

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Steve LeVine
Marker
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Editor at Large, Medium, covering the turbulence all around us, electric vehicles, batteries, social trends. Writing The Mobilist. Ex-Axios, Quartz, WSJ, NYT.