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Greta Thunberg Is Dating Old Men
What does a Swedish Teenager with Asperger's have to do with grey-haired Oil CEOs?
To find out, let’s go back in history.
The year is 1890, and a new law called the Sherman Act just passed Congress and is about to split up the trillion-dollar monopoly of John D. Rockefeller.
Tis law still exists and was updated in 1914 with the Clayton Act.
With these two laws, it's impossible for big companies to create monopolies or to secretly sit down in a backroom and agree on prices that would screw over consumers.
If you do it, you’re in big trouble and you will probably end up in jail.
Microsoft used to be in big trouble around 2000 for exactly this. Uncle Bill nearly lost his empire. Rumor has it that he pledged to sit in meaningless non-profit meetings and educate children around the world, just so that they wouldn’t break up his baby and send him to jail.
One more thing.