"sorting things out to their own advantage".    Fine, but you leave out the little item of competition--on which capitalism is based.    You have provided precisely zero evidence of collusion between all businesses--or even all large businesses--in any given field.

As i just said above, you also seem to be just determined to maintain maximum paranoia--while wrapping yourself in the oh-so-reasonable attitude of "open-mindedness"--which in your case is remarkably close to open-mindedness to every crackpot theory you run across.

A rational person needs some powers of discrimination in thought.   You are plumping for no winnowing of ideas whatsoever.

You're welcome to wallow in your hazy dark fears.   Pardon us if we don't join you.