Nationalism aside, there is a common refrain on HN comments that breaking up companies will result in a decline in innovation. History suggests otherwise: The

Nationalism aside, there is a common refrain on HN comments that breaking up companies will result in a decline in innovation. History suggests otherwise: The last company broken up was AT&T; at the time everyone was worried about Japanese electronics companies. > breaking up AT&T in 1982 was the best thing that could have happened to America. AT&T's core project in 1982 wasn't fighting Japanese electronics companies: it was suppressing the growth of the internet in the USA > Antitrust enforcement isn't an economic drag, it's an economic STIMULUS Source: https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/each-drop-of-strych-a-nine/#break-em-up https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/21/each-drop-of-strych-a-nin...