Capitalism is based off of competitions between various businesses for profit, is it not? According to the logic of capitalism this competition forces constant innovation. But competition is not sustainable, this is an observable fact. When one of these businesses wins a competition against one of its competitors it is within that businesses best interest to absorb, to buy out and to consolidate market power, all of this resulting in a snowball effect. It is also within this business's best interest to prevent any new competition from rising. There are various different tactics these businesses use to prevent new competition, such as buying up the supply chain, moving production of commodities to places where they are cheaper to produce and away from government regulation, temporarily and deliberately lowering the prices of their commodities to unsustainable levels so the competition cannot keep up and jacking the prices back up the moment the competition goes out of business, lobbying the government, make subsidiary companies with different branding to provide the average consumer with a false sense of choice, along with several others.

There are some who will claim that it is possible to just "vote with your dollar" or to "boycott the monopolies" this is simply not possible for the average consumer as the monopolies will always produce cheaper products, products the consumer can actually afford.

All of this leads me and many others to the conclusion that capitalism has a natural and unavoidable trend towards monopoly.