I feel like the biggest, most effective step we should take is to stop these companies from being able to buy political power. “Breaking” them while those in charge of breaking are owned by the same companies that is being broken up is not a real solution. It is purely optics. If political power was not for sale to the highest bidder, we could actually tackle monopolies by fairly regulating them. Until that happens, anything we try to do to handle said monopolies is a little pointless because they have direct control over the regulators.
Maybe I’m not smart enough to understand how this is not the most obvious first step towards any meaningful change. So maybe someone can point out what I’m missing here.
Maybe I’m not smart enough to understand how this is not the most obvious first step towards any meaningful change. So maybe someone can point out what I’m missing here.