Quote: (06-11-2015 05:52 AM)Phoenix Wrote:
^Anti-trust laws favour increased corruption, as the laws are shaped by lobbyists, of which bigger companies have more.
Microsoft didn't spend a single dollar on lobbying until the democratic machine went after them. Thereafter they were amply invested in it. There is nothing wrong with a 'monopoly' that customers choose.
Anti-trust laws were applied effectively and fairly in the early 1900s, under Theodore Roosevelt.
If our government is so corruptible that it can be bought by lobbyists, the solution isn't to stop regulation. The solution is do something about the corruption. I think up until the 1980s, the US had a fairly non-corrupt government with a high degree of corporate regulation. It was at that point that financiers and corporatists began to seize control, which had very negative ramifications for most Americans, especially blue collar men.
As for Microsoft, they spend a huge amount of money lobbying for tech visas for foreign immigrants. If they were unregulated, they'd flood the market with even more foreign workers, further exacerbating the unemployment situation.