AHC: More U.S. anti-trust action since AT&T divestiture in 1982?

I think you need a conservative consumerist movement leader who is kind of a co-belligerent. The modern crunchy/anti-Vaccine crowd is a bit late to the party, but they could have gotten an evil big corporate mindset.

Re: computers. The decline of Apple post-Jobs in the 1990s in a way weakened the anti-trust case for Microsoft because it was hard to say it was forcing people to use Windows (though the integration was a stronger case) when it had no legitimate OS rival for its bread and butter. It's kind of like Intel vs Cryix and AMD. I used to build computers with my dad in the '90s and Cyrix/AMD blew chunks. Apple was a niche, weirdo/artists' company. If it was instead where MS was taking a harder line with a more neXt-ish Apple, then you could see greater pressure.

2008 bank reform could easily have gone in a de-centralized but regulated approach rather than "too big to fail."
 
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