Should the federal government break up Big Tech companies?

Everyone frames this as a consumer issue, but ask the workers. In 2010 the Justice Department caught Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, and others in no-poach agreements that suppressed engineers' wages across Silicon Valley, and the companies eventually paid $415 million to settle. That is what concentrated power does when nobody is watching: it does not just raise prices, it holds down paychecks. Consumers get free search while the people building the products get a rigged labor market, and no individual engineer can bargain against a cartel of the world's richest companies. Breaking up concentrated employers restores the one thing workers cannot create for themselves: competing bidders for their labor. Antitrust was written for exactly this, and the workers deserve the protection as much as the shoppers. DOJ