Alleged ice-cream cartel in Japan investigated as sweltering summer looms

When companies compete against and fight each other, it’s known as early capitalism that benefits consumers. But when those companies cooperate with each other, working against consumers, they realize its in their best interests to unite against consumers, suddenly they are “colluding” and a “cartel”? Late-stage capitalism ultimately leads to such corporate monopolies anyway, either one company buys up a monopoly, or all of them collude together to control a monopoly.