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I agree that antitrust is too reactive, especially in tech, but when it hits the real world your proposed solution would just lead to a new Byzantine maze like our current tax code. We'd get a whole new industry built up around helping corporations to technically stay under the thresholds by exploiting loopholes (and another industry for lobbying for those loopholes to be expanded).

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My spitball solution is to add an excise tax on revenue based on market concentration, potentially paid back to consumers or new market entrants. So if you own 50% of a market, maybe you pay a 25% excise tax, and thus the market finds an equilibrium except in cases where a monopoly is warranted, despite the high tax.

This could be used as a criticism of literally any law of any kind.

Precisely. Laws and regulations are overly complex, and as a result open many opportunities for corporations pay for carve outs for themselves, enriching themselves at the expense of the public.

Yes, see the entire field of anarchism

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