It's an interesting effect of Capitalism. Large companies come to dominate the various industries. They accumulate massive pools of wealth. They enjoy economic production efficiencies of scale, and can use their market dominance to warp and shape market performance. However, they also suffer from inefficiencies of scale. They cannot effectively cover the niche markets. This niche market gap creates profit opportunities for niche market players, regardless of how dominant the leading companies are in their respective industries. In a strictly Marxist understanding of capitalism, it is said all of the money pools to the top of the economy, and it is true that the majority of money does exactly this. It is held in the hands of a few. Yet it is also true that money does flow back downwards. Marx doesn't discuss that part. The continuous buying out of these niche company operators is one such mechanism of this downward transfer of wealth. You can still start a company in your garage and sell it for $300 million dollars a few years down the road. The roads to achieving real personal wealth in a single human lifetime are actually rather limited. There are but a handful of ways to do it, and none of them are guaranteed to work. Starting a successful business is probably your best chance to achieving real wealth in your lifetime. Even then, the odds are against you succeeding. Many of those who have succeeded actually failed in several prior business attempts before finally getting it right. Some get lucky right off, but that is the exception, and not the rule. Minecraft buddy got lucky. His is not the average story in the gaming world. There are thousands of game makers who didn't get lucky. Just as there are thousands who have managed to earn a decent income without ever approaching mega bucks. This market too is dominated by a handful of larger companies. Good for him I say.