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It's a good question, seems like corporations have more power to do so now, from linked article:

>Corporations have the power to raise prices without losing customers because they face so little competition. Since the 1980s, two-thirds of all American industries have become more concentrated.

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Hmmmm, I suppose we did just spend two years crushing small businesses into the ground, so I imagine that big corporations do have less competition than ever at the moment.