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The point of antitrust talk is to prevent a company that has achieved dominance fairly, through extraordinary and diligent effort, from maintaining that positio
by artsrc 16y ago
The point of antitrust talk is to prevent a company that has achieved dominance fairly, through extraordinary and diligent effort, from maintaining that position in other ways.
Bringing down companies that once were, but no longer are good at their jobs is the whole point.
- maxharris 16y agoThe only way for a company to remain "dominant" without doing a good job is for it to curry special favors from the government. This is done usually by lobbying for regulations that harm competitors, while leaving the company relatively unharmed (differences in scale following consolidation are natural, for example, but additional regulatory burden will keep small upstarts from entering the market - think about the way milk is sold in California). Without regulatory assistance, unearned monopolies are impossible to maintain.