The U.S isn't a monolith. Tech is the thing that made places like San Francisco really successful. But people in the midwest haven't really benefited from big t

The U.S isn't a monolith. Tech is the thing that made places like San Francisco really successful. But people in the midwest haven't really benefited from big tech companies (outside of access to those products - they can google things and have FB accounts). If anything, big tech is accelerating a trend of brain drain across the U.S. That said, breaking up companies is a pretty ham-fisted attempt at addressing a real issue. Big tech companies do a lot of lobbying, potentially for things that aren't in the interests of the general public. They've also taken advantage of the global nature of tech to shelter billions of dollars of profits from tax. Big companies (tech or no) should probably have less influence on the government and they should probably pay their fair share of taxes (you'll be hard pressed to find many who would say that Amazon is paying their fair share given their $0 tax bill right now along with wild sales figures).