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    Robert Bork:

    He also became an influential antitrust scholar, arguing that consumers often benefited from corporate mergers and that antitrust law should focus on consumer welfare rather than on ensuring competition.

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        Yeah, it’s fine if you drive all your competition out of business, as long as the consumer "isn’t harmed"TM . But, of course, how are you going to prove that the consumer isn’t harmed?