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When it's railroading time, you get railroads.
When the railroads turn into the personal satrapies of rail-barons, you get trustbusters.
A couple decades ago, it was online service time. We had the users, the telcoms systems, the computers, the modems, so we got platforms.
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When the railroads turn into the personal satrapies of rail-barons, you get trustbusters.
A couple decades ago, it was online service time. We had the users, the telcoms systems, the computers, the modems, so we got platforms.
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We had that, but we lacked something important: effective antimonopoly enforcement. Lax merger laws allowed companies with access to capital markets to buy out or neutralize all their competitors, so we got monopolies.
Right on schedule, we're getting digital trustbusters.
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Right on schedule, we're getting digital trustbusters.
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Now, some people aren't technically sophisticated, but they do understand a lot about competition law. That's how you get meat-and-taters antitrust proposals like @amyklobuchar's #CALERA, which address the structural problems with antitrust law.
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