Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere

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Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere
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how is that not anti-competitive behaviour?

Antitrust was just a nice idea. It's kinda dead. Will remain dead unless we can purge corruption from politics. For some reason, most politicians seem averse to this idea.

Luckily the party driven and heavily influential political roles are filled with diverse representatives from every walk of life and aren't largely built around the same support circles and ideals that have already been entrenched for generations. With millions of citizens, its normal for the same handful of families to remain in power, with the exception of some rich celebrities who can win the popularity polls.

Everything is fine.

As long as the rich can get more money. That's what is most important.

You forgot to put “for some reason” in italics for extra sarcasm