Industries built on innovative new technologies often start out with competition among many smaller companies but eventually gravitate into fewer large corporations. This consolidation occurs to the betterment of national economies. It makes more economic sense that, for example, that 10 automakers manufacture 100,000 automobiles each than for 1,000 automakers try to manufacture 100 automobiles each. The result is that with economies-of scales improvements manufacturers can sell more goods with the same amount of currency while conserving valuable labor. Yet somehow a tradition developed in the U.S. to punish excellence instead of relying on what should be basic economic common sense.