One of several reasons this happens is because debilitating the company is like completely skipping an antitrust hearing and granting the remaining companies cl

One of several reasons this happens is because debilitating the company is like completely skipping an antitrust hearing and granting the remaining companies closer to a monopoly. The government feels like reining in the remaining company's behavior in the future will be that much harder, while the service for customers and society will degrade to that much worse and egregious. Yes, the concept is stretched when half a million people are dead, and many of the others are now addicted to fentanyl as the country has devolved into a narcostate with poisoned supply chains. If you want to understand how we get here, you have to understand the psychology of the governments instead of oversimplifying it with "corruption" because such a simplified view will cause the wrong and ineffective public policy changes to occur, making those dead and dying people's lives be in vain.