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Re:Is it time to break up Google? by tradersam on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:10PM (#14174828)
Also, 2007-09 showed that the banks are too big to fail. They don't just go away, and they have more resources than anyone to lobby against their strong position going away, so not much we can do besides tolerate and mitigate their influence until a popular idealist get on the ticket.
Re:Is it time to break up Google? by Consultant32452 on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:16PM (#14174860)
It's hard to over-estimate the lengths these groups will go to in order to protect their position. We know that our wealthy will convince our government to go to war or overthrow democratically elected leaders in order to protect profits. It will probably take a revolution to unseat them.