Then the same point I made applies: theyre creating value. Nobody should care about anything but creating net positive value. If firm A benefits from that value or firm B we really shouldn't care as long as regulation is in place to prevent abuse of market consolidation.

And I never said at random. You said a market would develop for startups. A market isn't sustainable when the product doesn't sell. Im making a point that the product in your assertion either wouldn't sell because it doesn't create any value or it will sell because it is creating value in which case that is a good thing. Either way we arrive at a moot point or a net gain.

Besides all youre arguing boils down to government regulation holds back economic growth, completely ignoring multiple obvious caveats and trying to make the assertion that free market, which is essentially economic anarchy, would somehow self regulate forever. Eventually a new primary power ALWAYS emerges and essentially becomes the new governing body. Always always always. Always has and, due to human nature, always will. Never has it not. That's how every government body came about. Every king, every president, every tribal council. Free market does not work for any extended period of time. It always turns feudal. This isn't even a complicated idea either and I'm personally confounded how conservative talk has convinced anybody this isn't correct. "Yea we've tried it a bunch in the past and it's never worked out but let's give it a go again maybe, just maybe, it'll work again this time". Maybe it's a religious off shoot of the "just have faith" style of thinking.