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If the US had working anti trust this wouldn't really even be a thing.

• 21asdffdsa12 2mo ago
  The market is a funnel, rewarding centralization, you can thrustbust the t-1000 all you want, but the mercury meets in the middle and guess who is back.
  • raverbashing 2mo ago
    (Actually I think it was Gallium but your point stands ;) )
  • TeMPOraL 2mo ago
    Yes, but that's by design in some sense. Monopoly is a carrot, entrepreneurs are donkeys on treadmills chasing after such carrots. The market's value to society in this metaphor is the energy produced by the treadmills, so while it's critical to offer donkeys the promise of a carrot, it's even more important they don't actually get it, because then they step off the treadmill and become a nuisance.
    • 21asdffdsa12 2mo ago
      I agree you could make laws allowing for self-busting. As in, some management whistleblower having evidence of monopoly practices, reports it and the company gets autosplit- with the dissidents as manager of the new company.