Rallying under the banner of trust busting
When firms hold large market shares, consumers risk paying higher prices on goods and services and getting lower quality products when compared to competitive markets. Competition law does not make merely having a monopoly illegal, but rather abusing the power that a monopoly may confer, for instance through exclusionary practices. Market dominance is linked with decreased innovation and increased political connection.1
If you are using a product or service which seems to have gotten worse over the years, it is likely that the industry is controlled by a few dominant players. If your really out of luck, Private Equity will also be involved.
Surprisingly, most countries do not require new laws to start reigning in dominant market players. They only need to start (genuinely) enforcing existing ones.
The success of capitalism is based on the assumption of private ownership. When a company can hinder you from repairing, or even remotely disable, your means of production, to which extent is there still private ownership?
While it is difficult to accurately define where trust busting ends and consumer rights start, unfair market practices share one essential trait with porn: hard to define, but everyone surely recognizes it when they see it.
Rallying under the banner of trust busting might be one of the crucial steps to increase innovation and affordability.