>company becomes big>buys tiny companies to remove competition>because it is too big, it can now buy other companies with different productive activities, becoming bigger and more powerful>they can keep repeating this process with ease>if the government thinks it's too big, the company can just lobby their way into the government and continue to be a monopolyCapitalism is a carefully placed trap to conquer the world. We are going to enter Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan levels of world domination, but with corporations.
>>62027597>hi i'm big corp, we'd like to buy your company>cool, but no thanks, we have more ambition than thatoh no, anyways
>>62027650>oh you wont sell to us? we are going to undercut all of your products and refuse to do business with those that do business with you
>>62027669>still not selling bro, not sure why you're waiting for me to refuse your "offer" to do all that>>62027597Once a company gets big enough, internal planning replaces market transactions.Departments allocate budgets instead of buying/selling services, so real price signals disappear.This is called the Economic Calculation Problem, which applies not just to the State, but also to large corporations.
>>62027597It's actually worse than you describe because the big corporation can issue more stock and use that to buy the smaller companies. So the corporation can essentially create money. It dilutes the value of existing shares in the company, which can cause internal political problems for the directors, but as long as they are buying smaller companies that add value to the corporation equivalent to of greater than the dilution, they can keep growing forever that way.
>>62027597Companies don't become one giant blob. Think of them more like starfish or jellyfish. You have the main parent company (the brain), then a bunch of arms or tentacles. If an arm is dying, you can cut it off and grow (or buy) a new one.
>>62027597But keep in mind, the corporation is not a creation of the free market. It is a government-created monster.
