I wish my government had hired developers to create useful Linux tools, they gave money to nextcloud instead of paying tribute to Microsoft.

But guess who pays the best bribes?

The US used to have huge oil or railroad companies, but also scruples to regulate them when they grew too big.

You mean how the US regulated them out of business after giving them huge subsidies?

No, I was talking about 100 years ago.

I really don't think the oil and railroad monopolies were broken up for the benefit of consumers, or due to some high-minded principles. They were broken up at the behest of other domestic industries which they were strangling, and those industries had the political clout to take on the monopolies. Arguably the same thing happened with the AT&T monopoly.

At least our planes can fly.

(that was free, I’ll take the downvotes)