Should We Worry about Jeff Bezos's Growing Empire?

With the announcement that Amazon.com is purchasing Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, a certain strain of the anti-business Left went into panic mode. It's the same concern you see every time two large companies merge, amplified by the fact that Whole Foods happens to be particularly popular among people skeptical of corporate power. Of course, all these fears are terribly dramatic and overblown, falling into the classic error that confuses corporate power with government power.