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Large companies can only exist if they receive monopoly rents. Otherwise incumbents would be outcompeted by challengers and we'd see a convergence of many small firms with low profit margins. So yeah, its the responsibility of the government to regulate monopolization and they aren't doing it.
Economies of scale are a thing, so breaking up monopolies can easily result in low efficiency. Much better is to nationalize them.
Yeah, it's a major consideration when determining if a merger should happen, e.g. Krogers. Just because its more efficient doesn't mean you get consumer benefit because you should expect them to profit maximize with monopoly rents. I mean definitely +1 on nationalize them rather than let capitalism go unfettered, but I'm making a general observation that large companies can only be large because they can extract monopoly rents, rather than just a barrier to entry to match efficiencies of scale thing.
The government fundamentally represents the interests of the class that holds power though, and under capitalism it's the people who own the monopolies.