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The warning is for armchair speculators like you and me. Specifically:

> Antitrust is not against monopoly, but monopoly "abuse".

So this might be true about anti-trust in the US right now. But I'm not sure whether it's true about ant-trust law in eg France?

Also, in practice this was not true about anti-trust law in the US historically: Standard Oil was smashed into pieces without anyone proving in court that consumers had been harmed, or that the monopoly had been 'abused'.

See eg https://fee.org/articles/the-myth-that-standard-oil-was-a-pr... and https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Antitrust.html



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