Antitrust law, established originally to limit corporate power, has become its friend. Think about the following anomalies:
• If a group of independent truck drivers forms an association to jointly bargain their prices, that combination is a cartel: automatically illegal, perhaps criminal. But if the same truck drivers go to work for a company that charges customers for their services on a single price schedule, there is no antitrust violation, even though this arrangement suppresses price competition precisely to the same extent. What is illegal outside a corporation is legal within it.
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https://prospect.org/article/double-standard-antitrust-law?fbclid=IwAR3P_C43H97Pe4SYJpL0ULyrGhkJzhaGmfjVTy3OlozxLaFkS3oK6xOenDQ
