Not anymore. The age of the free market is over. These companies: 1. Are propped up by the government. They just ask for more gibs. They are often too big to fail and extract the vast majority of their profits if not all of them through government subsidies, "quantitative easing", bailouts. 2. Just sell the same product since 2010 with marginal improvement. They have no real competition and essentially have a monopoly. How many companies sell operating systems? 3. Have so much money that they can just buy entire smaller companies and extract some money from them until they burn them up. There are tons and tons of these giant monster asshole corporations.