I think you're overstating the importance of small companies to the vast majority of people. If Amazon comes along and annihilates all the small bookstores by u

I think you're overstating the importance of small companies to the vast majority of people. If Amazon comes along and annihilates all the small bookstores by undercutting their prices, people will just get their books from Amazon. That happened; that's a fact. It doesn't really matter to anyone except the bookstore owners who are now annoyed that they can't make profits anymore. It has nothing to do with "stability."