What we need is to shake the market up and create some windows were entrepeneurs can realize a profit in serving people like you who are disillusioned with shitty products and service for a nominally low price. Unfortunately, these industries take huge captializations in order to ramp up to a competitive scale. My argument that I’ve been advancing on my blog is that the corporations grow far beyond the scale that a normally functioning market would otherwise sustain because of government-sponsored inputs: subsidized transportation, infrastructure, limited liability, corporate personhood, etc. This gives them the kind of staying power that makes them unwilling to take your interests seriously.

They simply don’t need to in order to stay in business because things are locked up. They realize that, yes, a competitor could expand into a threat, but it would take lots of money to do so - and any investor who’d throw that kind of money at a business would be much happier with a “stable” industry than one where competition makes profits uncertain.