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Why? You seem to be expressing outrage, anger, or frustration, but you're not giving the rest of us anything to think about.



All of them enjoy market domination in their respective areas of expertise. Their size makes them effective monopolies and their behavior has many times ruled anti-competitive. Competition between them is insufficient and they have been convicted of organizing in monopolistic manners before.

For consumers and the market as a whole it is more healthy if they are broken up into smaller companies.


Even if they weren't near monopolies in their respective fields, I think we should be wary of permitting the sort of concentration of power that arises from the existence of trillion dollar corporations.




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