Theodore Roosevelt successfully broke up Standard Oil through antitrust legislation and anti-monopoly laws, but modern governments cannot do the same with Amazon, Facebook, and tech platforms because the concentration of power is so gigantic that no government however well-meaning can regulate it

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Speaker

Yanis Varoufakis

Evidence Quote

i do not believe it is possible to do that which roosevelt did with standard oil [1:10:29]

Source

Can we Fix Capitalism? Yanis Varoufakis vs Gillian TettIntelligence Squared
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:33:04 PM

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