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I want to start reading "Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History", which covers the now failed anti-trust system in the United States, but I am worried for my blood pressure, as it covers many other ways in which our government almost exclusively works for its corporate owners.

We may think of how Europe deals with big business as extreme and radical, but it's only because we got so far away from the reasonable middle ground of big money and citizenry coexisting without f---ing each other over.




> We may think of how Europe deals with big business as extreme and radical

What has Europe done in the last decade in anti-trust? Vestager brought a series of suits that got overturned by the courts, or charged monopolists peanuts for brazenly violating the law.


> What has Europe done in the last decade in anti-trust?

They have been squeezing billions of dollars out of Facebook and Google, for one thing.


Another book that touches on the subject is "The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets" by Thomas Philippon.




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