>A company should be able to dictate or negotiate the margins in their distribution chain. No they shouldn't. A competitive market would continuously drive tho

>A company should be able to dictate or negotiate the margins in their distribution chain. No they shouldn't. A competitive market would continuously drive those margins lower. To the extent that a company is able to maintain or freeze margins it means they have too much market power. I'd prefer to break them up but in lieu of that we might as well just pass a law that mandates what a competitive market would do anyways: remove any negotiating power the company had.