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“People grew to depend on big companies like Standard Oil, just as their descendants today cannot sign off from Facebook and Google. But they did not necessarily like them.” nytimes.com/2019/06/20/tec…
“In 1900, the Democratic Party platform included the belief that ‘private monopolies are indefensible and intolerable,’ declaring: ‘Unless their insatiate greed is checked, all wealth will be aggregated in a few hands and the Republic will be destroyed.’” nytimes.com/2019/06/20/tec…
“In the late 1940s, said @DanielDancrane, an anti-trust historian at the University of Michigan, ‘there was quite a bit of industrial concentration following the war, and fear that undue levels of concentration could bring fascism or communism to power.’” nytimes.com/2019/06/20/tec…
