You describe microscopically what's happening macroscopically: The US is experiencing runaway consolidation and monopolization in every market sector. It is the

You describe microscopically what's happening macroscopically: The US is experiencing runaway consolidation and monopolization in every market sector. It is the business plan of every VC-funded startup discussed on this forum to monopolize a market and extract ALL the profit from it. The excess capacity of every supply chain in the entire country has been liquidated for short-term profit over the past decade, and then COVID happened. No one seems to be calling out this behavior, so I expect it will continue.