Instead of financing guerrilla warfare, they simply finance the right politicians to take out competition. It's done through corrupt regulations, taxes, unequal enforcement, lawsuits, etc.
Instead of going around and openly robbing people, they simply get politicians to steal for them. The thefts no longer occur at gunpoint, but rather through automatic taxes that most citizens don't even look at. The politicians get a cut and don't care because "it's not my money."
The politicians and connected businesses benefit while everyone else gets screwed through higher taxes, higher prices and inferior products.
Ya, there’s no product competition, allowing the market place to decide.
Where do you get this “most” garbage?
Do you have any choices in transportation, appliances, tools, electronics, food, clothing.....?
There are a few area’s where your paranoid scenario occurs and it’s important to correct those, but it certainly isn’t the prevalent business model in America.
It’s has no bearing on exploding drug use in our culture.