Tucker is a man who is trying to profit off of post-wartime desires. Tucker received information that the majority of returning soldiers wanted to buy a car when they return from war. Trucker utilizes his connections to acquire the proper resources. Tucker ends up getting the largest factory in Detroit and a former big three board member for his company. The concept behind the car is very popular and the reveal of the car is a big success. Now all tucker has to do is start the manufacture of his car. Unfortunately for Tucker and his board starts making decisions behind his and altering the plans for the car. Since tucker's board of directors are all formerly from big three companies they understand how to play the game and playing the game in the auto industry is to follow the status quo and not make massive innovations. The big 3 do not compete with each other they only make minor updates or changes so consumers continue to purchase cars every year. With the entry of a potentially popular member of the automotive industry they retaliate. The technology being incorporated is vastly superior to the current vehicles being manufactured so the big three had to put a stop to it. The big 3 end up throwing every asset they can find at tucker. They publish slander and hire lawyers to imprison for any reason they can find. The big 3 even leverage politicians and bypass legal documents to cease the production of Tuckers' work. The big 3 did not win the case but they did successfully put a stop to Tucker's company. When corporations are at the top of the food chain they typically like to stay there. The amount of leverage and political ties an established corporation has can be astounding. Most if not all big-name companies have an entire room full of lawyers mulling about ready to fulfill the legal desires of the company. When a potentially innovative company starts up in an established market the beachhead of the market is crucial for profit to escape the “valley of death”. The established players in the market are not particularly inclined to share the limited market size with potential competitors. The big 3 saw Tucker's innovations and decided that the product that he was planning on offering would upset the market, displacing the powers at being. They decided to snuff him out before he became a competitor in the market or “A Problem”. This has a very negative effect on the marketplace. This allows big names and brands to produce the same mediocre products year after year to the consumer with no real competition. This lowers the consumer's optionality. Rather than letting the consumer decide if the product lives or dies in the market with currency, the established corporation decides for them and eliminates competition. Typically instances of this do not reach the public. Corporations do not want big headlines of them brute forcing budding competition out of the market. When instances of this occur they don't reach the market or a small news distributor picks it up. Instances show up after the fact and tend to have a mediocre reaction.
