<story><title>Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)</title><url>http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/05/16/104825255.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rckclmbr</author><text>Standard Oil consisted of 5% of the US GDP at the time, and controlled the entire refining process.  Google is still pretty far away from that.&lt;p&gt;One thing I find interesting though is that Rockefeller feared Teddy Roosevelt being elected, just like Google fears Bernie Sanders.  Bernie and Roosevelt hate big business for the same reasons.  Interestingly, the top tech companies think monopoly is good for the same reasons that Rockefeller did -- that they can hyperoptimize the entire process, and the winners are the consumers because of cheaper prices and higher quality.&lt;p&gt;That assumes the business operates in the consumers best interests, however...</text></comment>
<story><title>Standard Oil Company Must Dissolve in 6 Months (1911)</title><url>http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/05/16/104825255.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>DavidSJ</author><text>Interestingly, they included the full text of the Supreme Court decision in the article. I guess they could just link to the PDF these days, but would the New York Times have included the full text in the early 90&amp;#x27;s?&lt;p&gt;Edit: Also of note is the notice of the first &amp;quot;aero-taxi&amp;quot; beginning service in Paris.&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: And reading the article, we see that concern over &amp;quot;activist judges legislating from the bench&amp;quot; is nothing new.</text></comment>