Concentration is a mathematical inevitability of a scale free network.

Concentration is a mathematical inevitability of a scale free network. The connections that allow a million shops from a thousand cities to compete on a global market are the same connections that mean they can all be replaced by a single shop operating from a single city.

The internet allows this to happen frictionlessly and rapidly but it’s no different to the consequences of normal competition under capitalism. Long term, competition always tends toward monopoly.