Comment by michaelt

> I tend to feel that a lack of government intervention isn't a significant piece of this puzzle.

Depends if you agree with somenameforme's theory that tech companies start off amazing, get big, then become awful.

You may have noticed, in recent decades, we haven't bothered with enforcing anti-trust law. If Facebook wants to buy Instagram and Whatsapp, they can. If Microsoft wants to buy Github and Activision they can. If Google wants to buy Youtube, Doubleclick and Nest they can.

If we accept the premise that FAANG is where innovation goes to die, going 25 years without any antitrust enforcement might not have been the smartest move.