Large acquisitions can be handled like antitrust cases, but small acquisitions include "acqui-hires", pulling in cliques of friends one by one, and for all prac

Large acquisitions can be handled like antitrust cases, but small acquisitions include "acqui-hires", pulling in cliques of friends one by one, and for all practical purposes hiring individual employees. Besides, monopolies have to be regulated and/or broken up, to stop the damage they are doing right now, not merely restricted from further growth by subjecting them to sportsmanlike handicaps.