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It's not as much America's Golden goose as the auto industry. That isn't a complete comparison, the destruction of the auto industry broke large swathes of the physical economy (by that I mean the many many industries that go into an automobile, factories for cables, factories for putting the plastic on cables, doors, glass, etc. These are physical locations that require many people involved, not to mention the job creature surrounding these manufacturing plants.

The tech companies, yes make a lot of money, but the wealth is much more concentrated and a lot lot less jobs are required to make it work.

These companies need to be broken up to foster competitiveness, which leads to more jobs, innovation in different sectors. The unified Google vs. China is such a tired argument from a company that trying to slowly spread their control and negatively leach internet users data. If they aren't broken up before they start causing even more material harm then who knows, maybe in 10 years when the only available GoogSurance denies your claim for medicine because they scraped your Ancenstry.com you'll see what I was talking about.



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