• The address listed on his fake ID was “128 Sherman Place”.
• Sherman Place is a real street, but house #128 does not exist.
• Luigi is trying to call attention to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890.
• It aims to protect consumers, businesses, and the overall economy from the negative effects of anticompetitive behaviour.
• The 128th word of the Sherman Act is “punished”.
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act is what outlawed US monopolies.
• The three industries exempt from this anti-trust act are organized labour, baseball, and insurance companies.
• Insurance companies are exempt from federal antitrust laws mandating fair trade of insurance claims under Section 1. This exemption allows insurers to engage in practices that might be anticompetitive without fear of federal antitrust penalties. It reduces accountability for claim denial as well.
• It also allows insurance companies to collaborate on pricing and coverage standards, ultimately impacting the quality of care and raising pricing for consumers.
• Luigi’s other connections to monopoly are as follows: 1) the monopoly money in the backpack. 2) his route from New York to Pennsylvania (via train), then to Jail, which is one of the streets on the Monopoly board game.
• Connections draw attention to the consequences of monopolistic behaviour.

Section 1 of the Sherman Act: https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/blog/antitrust-law-basics-section-1-of-the-sherman-act/#:~:text=The%20Sherman%20Act%20contains%20two,is%20declared%20to%20be%20illegal.

I’ve seen this circulating on TikTok. Is it legit?

I haven’t laughed this hard and been impressed with a comedian this much in a very long time.