content: Breaking up monopolies does not solve the problem, it just creates more future monopolies. Edit: In response to the "got any solutions?" inquiry, below:  I believe the root cause is broader in scope. In short, each Country has different culture and laws, and each is fighting global corporations in their own way. I see a strategy where the US adopts isolationism and rejects the global corporate monopolies influence on it's culture. You can't fight everyone, but you can isolate yourself from the battle and let everyone else keep fighting it out on their own.  Corporations should no longer be people, officers should be criminally liable for their decisions and the actions that result of the corporation. (if corporations were really "people", most of them would be in jail, stripped of their assets and wealth, re-distributed to The People. Pick one, basically) 100% of corporate welfare should be immediately eliminated, allowing the rapid adjustment in everything else in the ecosystem that only exists because of corporate welfare. Foreign companies operating domestically should be eliminated, making American companies American owned and thus American motivated Anti-trust should be completely re-vamped - either modernized by The People (NOT the politicos), or done away with entirely and replaced with a new set of rules that has a guiding principal of American Citizen progress and prosperity as a whole.  I could go on, but these are the first things that come to mind. Yes, they're paradigm shifts - but the thing about a paradigm shift is that it's going to happen, one way or the other, so you can either steer the ship, or just be swept along the current.