Day226: Kids on Antitrust Cases

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A reflection on schools, mergers, inequality, and hope — Day226

When schools fail their children, the nation pays in silence. We grow up hearing that a few people and companies are celebrated in the market, growing richer and richer through mergers and acquisitions, while the public quietly watches their shares in companies change hands. But nothing life-changing trickles down. Instead, the public claims that schools are failing children — and they are right.

It makes you wonder: if you had £75 and the courage to build a website yourself, could you change something? Could you recover a voice for the majority, who are hacked, ignored, and left behind, while the so-called elite grow faster and richer and the national debt rises like a shadow?

Most of the nation’s resources are spent managing the machinery of finance, yet the banks did not even say: “Here, take what you need” Instead, we are left piecing together lessons from history — from antitrust cases where governments tried to hold giants accountable — to remember that unchecked power can be broken.

There is sadness in how far things have drifted. Yet there is relief in knowing that truth cannot be silenced forever. And there is hope — because children still ask questions, and asking is the beginning of change.

The national debt is reported to stand at £2.655 trillion in UK. It has gone down by a few points. We saw it rising at an alarming rate after COVID, but now things started to come down. At its peak, it was increasing by billions points.

If the nation truly looked at the world through the eyes of “antitrust kids” — the children who question why a handful of giants hold so much power while schools go without — we might start to recover the debt not just with money, but with fairness. Breaking up monopolies, taxing wealth where it hides, and investing the returns into education could release new energy. Recovery would not come from another bailout or clever accounting trick, but from rediscovering competition, honesty, and the restless curiosity of young people who dare to ask: why not different?

Antitrust Cases (Big Names, Big Fines)

The big players say every Computer Science graduate should “know operating systems”. But only a few people ever get to build one. Most of us just use the same few platforms. That makes single points of failure. We see billions in fines, but the root problem stays. In a child’s world, schools teach “coding”, but not how to make full software and systems. It doesn’t add up.

Major antitrust cases and payouts

Name Case Payout / Fine Link
Google Android tying / restrictions (EU) €4.34 billion (2018) European Commission press release
Google Shopping search self-preferencing (EU) €2.42 billion (2017) European Commission press release
Apple Music-streaming App Store rules (EU) €1.8 billion (2024) European Commission press release
Microsoft EU antitrust fines (2004–2013, combined) ≈€1.96 billion total Case overview (summary)
Visa & Mastercard US interchange fee class action $5.54 billion settlement Official settlement site
Blue Cross Blue Shield US subscriber antitrust settlement $2.67 billion settlement Official settlement site

If we want real change, we must teach children not only to “code”, but to build software and systems end-to-end: design, operating systems basics, networking, product, and ethics. Open standards, fair rules, and real system skills reduce those single points of failure. Fines alone won’t fix the structure. Skills will.

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