> Probably true, but antitrust law is based on consumer welfare. I don’t believe this is true. The law doesn’t set that criteria, but rather it’s a standard of

> Probably true, but antitrust law is based on consumer welfare. I don’t believe this is true. The law doesn’t set that criteria, but rather it’s a standard of interpretation known as the Chicago School. This was established far after, but is not law. There’s a lot of debate on whether or not we should continue to maintain the standard. https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/reassessing-chicago-school-antitrust-law https://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/reassessing-chicago-school... Antitrust legislation was originally established to prevent monopoly power from giving a company influence that could challenge that of government and harm democracy.