• MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yep. There needs to be a legally mandated market cap after which the federal government automatically supervises the company breaking into smaller competitors.

    Or, ideally, liquidated and sold a department at a time to existing competitors, to ensure actual competition.

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      1 year ago

      Or, ideally, liquidated and sold a department at a time to existing competitors, to ensure actual competition

      Oh my sweet, summer child…

      • MajorHavoc@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, yeah. Wishes not miracles, and all that. I’ll take world peace and a pony, too.

        But there’s value in discussing where the target belongs.

        As long as we’re belaboring the point, mehacompanies should be require to sell divisions of their choice (cough Amazon Web Services cough.) to competitors to stay below the market cap. That way we don’t create a cliff, but still see things broken up.

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      1 year ago

      We have a sane person in this comment section! I love it. Can you please run for some public office?