[ivan_gammel]

I personally do not own Google shares directly, it’s mostly ETFs. I do not care much about Google and would rather prefer the portfolio to be diverse enough, meaning that there’s enough competition on the market and enough other companies worth investing. We do not need monopolies to prosper, because they reduce the size of the pie. Any fan of free market would agree with me, because when competition does not exist, free market does not exist.

[kubb]

Just saying, I’m not talking about idealized free markets, but specifically what we have right now.

Your ETFs rely on the companies in the basket doing what Google does.

[ivan_gammel]

Maybe those companies should have been smaller and focus on returning money to shareholders rather than on investment in expansion to other markets/products. It all depends on their size and influence.