In a free market the company that makes every cent they can has a survival advantage. Enough time and transactions and the market will be made entirely of survi

In a free market the company that makes every cent they can has a survival advantage. Enough time and transactions and the market will be made entirely of survivors. The rest will have been out-competed. One counter-pressure is regulation. But hey the US has a fetish about deregulation and so here we are.