[padre35]

Is there Governmental involvement in a free market?

And do we have a “free market” or an increasingly Oligopolic market?

[ejonesie22]

There are places for government protection, such as it pertains to protecting life and over all economic health.

Given the current rash of mergers and the like, one could cede that they are fewer players, but we have been there before. The market will balance out as it has for decades. Big companies become inefficient and someone will pick up the slack. Indeed may small businesses have been started for that very reason.

In a free market there was never any guarantee of a level playing field anyways. Been there done that.