In late October, Mr. Truman had an indescribable premonition and began working through the matters at hand more quickly.
He focused most of his energy on organizing and assessing the "Anti-Monopoly Law."
In any society, there were always people who went against the mainstream and swam against the current, and they were not rare.
In a highly commercialized, capitalized world like the Federation, there would always be people who remained highly wary of capital.
Among them were quite a few genuine scholars and experts.
During the drafting meetings for the "Anti-Monopoly Law Amendment Draft," these people submitted many constructive suggestions.
Lin Qi also attended the meeting, but he did not speak at all. He could not bring himself to oppose all the capitalists in the Federation.
It was not that he lacked the ability. He simply was not stupid enough.
If he had been stupid enough, he would certainly have said something.
But he was too clever to leave anyone even the slightest handle to use against him.
The amendment proposals drafted so far included several crucial additions.
For example, "A company's actual and indirect owners may own no more than three enterprises of the same type within the same industry."
This clause would directly send the large capital groups that had exploited loopholes in the "Anti-Monopoly Law" by splitting single monopolies into Group Companies straight to the guillotine.
If a company held most of the market, it was a monopoly, regardless of whether it had products.
If a company owned ninety-nine subsidiaries and ninety-nine products, monopolizing ninety-nine percent of the market, that was not a monopoly.
There had been no substantive change.
Once this clause was added to the existing provisions, many large industry-leading groups would face dismemberment!
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