Yes I see what I've done there and you pretty much dissolved the problem for me. Thanks.
dissolved the problem
So, you didn't have an underlying concern regarding concentration in the food industry?
If you did, here's some data on full-service restaurants. (Actually, this table does not use the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. Instead, it gives data on the top 4, 8, 20, and 50 firms in the sector.)
Perhaps someone out there is better at interpreting this table than I am, but it looks like, as of 2007 in the US, the top twenty firms took in slightly more than a sixth of the total revenue.
Note: This is only about full-service restaurants. Here is dat...
This article let's me know I'm not the only one concerned at the dominance of companies like Google and Facebook. I don't have enough data or information to judge whether my continued use of these services are going to be detrimental to me or the rest of humanity. What I do know is that increasingly I'm feeling like Facebook and Google know too much about me and have too much of my attention. I feel a little bit like a puppet, a little bit strung along. How do others here feel?
It reminds me or is analogous to this. In my opinion the food industry having a monopoly on what we eat, just as Google and Facebook will have a monopoly web content. Is this a risk on society?