I'm also from the EU, not the US but I have a hard time believing that Americans believe that monopolies or large dominant companies represent anything but the

I'm also from the EU, not the US but I have a hard time believing that Americans believe that monopolies or large dominant companies represent anything but the corruption of the concept of a market. Anti-trust laws in the US are some of the strongest in the world even if they are rarely enforced. I acknowledge they don't experience the benefits of free markets in many areas but I think they know what they should look like.