Indeed
Well, that was a fun exercise.
Now we can wait for some "brilliant legal mind" to explain in a mountain of non-essentials why the original breakup and destruction of 70% of shareholder value was "necessary," other than, of course, the piles and piles of attorney fees generated; as well as the crucial self-importance felt by — I will note — people who had no hand in creating AT&T, or anything remotely like it.
In a rational society, people wouldn’t even need to think about the essential difference between value creation and value destruction.
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