Way too many companies have the power to use an infinite amount of assets to buy off smaller and promising ideas from up and coming businesses and then repackage it into their incorporated slop at a worse price and a worse version.
Monopolies in markets are no longer that much of a problem. The main problem in a lot of industries these days is there are several huge players that can buy whatever they want through their hedge fund partners and face no consequences for it. There needs to be some kind of cap on how many businesses or assets a large corporation like Sony or Monsanto can purchase over a specific amount of time to promote growth of the independent and up and coming players while not allowing too much interference from the top investors. But at the same time, this can’t infringe on private business. This means that investments from deep pockets have to be thought out since very few of them can be made over a specific period of time.
The long and short of what I’m saying is, find a way to bottleneck the mega corporations where these “middle class” businesses so to speak don’t have to operate under an industry giant’s shareholders just to make their way to the top. This shark tank culture in the business world we just accept as a fact has allowed entities like State Street, Vanguard and Black Rock to reach unimaginable heights.