The government's role in economic regulation of monopolies, trusts, and anti-competitive behavior substantially atrophied from the 1950s-70s through the 2000s, such that antitrust law was not adapted to new technological contexts where harm comes not from price gouging but from usage of consumer data and behavioral manipulation.
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Victor JvetsayEvidence Quote
“Prior to new technologies arriving, most of the anti-competitive behavior was judged against prices... We never adapted to the new environment whereby it's not necessarily price gouging... Through the subsequent three years, three decades, all of that atrophied.”
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