This is a food chain. So each element in the chain looks to what it eats. You will attempt to be more efficient in the hunting and gathering on your side. The first step to prepare yourself for this world of more market-like competition is to become immersed in markets. There is always industrial reorganisation.
Companies constantly find a new niche.
If they re not prohibited by regulation or the tax system from entering a new niche, they will. Humans are infinitely adjustable. Unfortunately, in many of the poorer economies of the world, the simple mechanisms of the value-added tax pose an incredible burden on small business. Complying with the paperwork necessary to declare your tax and pay it is a barrier that forces many companies into the informal economy. People are simply not in organisations that are visible to the statistical or taxation authorities.