Source: Bill Gates’s monopolistic mask-off moment
TL;DR: relevant today, where Google/Facebook/Twitter/Apple and others might(should?) be broken up by anti-trust actions. And points out that breaking up monopolies can result in positive outcomes:
“When AT&T; was broken up in 82, corporatists cried that America was sacrificing its “national champion” just as Japan was eroding America’s technical dominance, and without AT&T;’s monopoly power, America’s tech industry was done.
Instead, breaking up AT&T; opened the space for the entire internet, and a generation-long American dominance of a system that has become a planetary nervous system, a source of prolonged American dominance and trillions in GDP.”
