IMO the end goal for solving this much-needed era of "monopolies and capitalism ruining everything" isn't the FTC winning cases in the existing framework, it's

IMO the end goal for solving this much-needed era of "monopolies and capitalism ruining everything" isn't the FTC winning cases in the existing framework, it's new laws that fix the new problems. Previous generations of Americans experienced how shitty monopolies are for everybody and made laws and agencies and legal precedent to prevent it. We should be aiming to do that again, for the new era of shitty monopolies ruining everything. The newly-revealed problems are not the same problems as railway companies and stuff from a hundred years ago. They may well be legal now (hence the difficulty of winning court cases), but they still suck for the country, and we can in principle legislate them out of existence. The great frustration of my (millennial) generation is that we grew up at the tail end of an era in which everyone evidently gave up on using government to make the world they wanted to live in and settled for getting rich, and we're .... slowly... trying to reclaim the fact that, no, actually, letting people exploit, manipulate, and degrade us is not something we have to put up and we are actually allowed to fix it democratically --- even if that notion had been mostly forgotten for a few decades.