> I believe businesses would just lie and say they are going to be part of the business but then just bury them anyway.
That's where my pet antitrust solution succeeds where others fail: ban all M&A. Companies only engage in mergers to consolidate market share, but their market share consolidation (i.e. monopolization) not only decreases competition, but also comes at the expense of employees and customers of the acquired businesses. Nobody wins except the monopolist, and monopolies are already bad, so why help them?
(I think of monopoly and market concentration on a gradient scale, from a little bit monopolized to completely monopolized, so don't get stuck on a monopoly being a single entity)
That's where my pet antitrust solution succeeds where others fail: ban all M&A. Companies only engage in mergers to consolidate market share, but their market share consolidation (i.e. monopolization) not only decreases competition, but also comes at the expense of employees and customers of the acquired businesses. Nobody wins except the monopolist, and monopolies are already bad, so why help them?
(I think of monopoly and market concentration on a gradient scale, from a little bit monopolized to completely monopolized, so don't get stuck on a monopoly being a single entity)