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Then go out of business they must.

• greedo 7y ago
  The result of that is a merger on the cheap. The surviving companies get to acquire talent, patents, trade secrets at a far cheaper rate. This would essentially kill off any company's chance of merging if it wasn't relatively healthy.
• ksdale 7y ago
  Right, I was just responding to the parent's assertion that preventing a monopoly doesn't require propping up competitors. Sometimes it does require that, and we should be conscious of the trade off we'd make in that situation.