Excellent article and you bring up many valid concerns. Knowing that the sole purpose of a corporation is to make money, I think it's very easy to deduce that our best interests (the consumer) are not at the heart of the matter. There comes a point in time when a company gets so large that all their decisions in essence become binary in nature. It's all about making more money and taking a larger part of market share. That's it and that's all.

This goes against my capitalist beliefs, but I say yes that a company can become too big. There are exceptions to every rule and as the evolution of business continues to develop, we are seeing some of these pitfalls occur in real time today.

The shortsightedness of business is what's most concerning to me presently. The larger and medium sized corporations are inter-locked in their survival of the fittest economic warfare that they are failing to see the long term ramifications. They keep cutting, cutting, cutting, to gain a competitive leg up or to just keep pace with Amazon that eventually there will be no one left with meaningful employment to buy their products or services. You can only cut overhead in the form of materials so much that they are turning to human labor as their last line of defense. I feel that inflationary pressures are also largely to blame for this. The runaway money printing is decreasing the value of fiat dramatically, even though you'll hear this mentioned on MSM. The costs are simply going up for everything, so in order to remain competitive, they must cut costs somewhere, and human labor is the last line of defense.

We have a major problem on the immediate horizon with Amazon and some other large corporations. When Mcdonald's starts installing self serve kiosks to cut down on human labor to maintain a competitive advantage, your warning bells should start going off in your head. They're simply cutting their nose off to spite their face by thinking short term and not long term in solving their problems, but in their profit only way of thinking, it's makes perfect sense to them, until it doesn't