[tarboreus]

Disagree. A robust anti-trust environment would alleviate 90% of these issues. What we are in now (in the US) is an environment of corporate political capture, which is not inevitable, as a similar situation was demonstrably reversed in the early 20th century by strong anti-trust legislation and enforcement.

The companies get away with this because they have massive market power, and they have used the wealth generated by that power to capture our political system.