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Who's gonna break them up? You and I? How?

Themselves? Of course not.

The government? They're the reason they're so big and powerful in the first place. Politicians are easily swayed if you have billions of dollars to convince them to do your bidding.

Everything is set up to favour cancerous growth once you reach a certain size, and there are no real failsafe mechanisms against that. Antitrust is useless if it is never invoked, for example.

I wish we'd start to notice how our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government have been failing us for decades on this matter, instead of just wondering "how the hell did it come to that?" and blaming "capitalism", whatever that means.

Adam Smith alone doesn't explain how a company can skirt around the rules of free market competition and grow to a trillion dollars. You need a lot of external help from people in power to get there.

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To add, the establishment LOVES when team red and blue fight over social issues.

Not that social issues aren't important, but the outcome of social issues never negatively affect the crony capitalists in power. Social issues are the opium of activists and pundits to distract the very same activists and pundits from decades of policy that only benefit the elite.

Raytheon LOVES when people fight about abortion rights.

Citibank LOVES when people fight about police reform.

None of these social issues actually matter if the entire middle class is ground to dust and scattered into the wind.