antitrust laws were enacted to make sure that businesses compete in every way—not just as sellers setting the prices they charge for products and services, but also as buyers of labor setting the salaries they pay. The appeal of antitrust for citizens was to make sure competition kept prices lower and salaries higher. Enforcement of our antitrust laws, however, has come to focus entirely on consumer prices, particularly since the definitive Borking of the field in the late 1970s.
