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And that sort of fairness is more important than we may sometimes realize.
這種公平性有時比我們認為的更重要。
Very few people think about politics all the time.
很少人成天思考政治。
Some even skip it at election time.
有些人甚至忽略選舉活動。
But we are all in the market. Every day, we are in the market.
但我們都置身于市場中。每一天，我們都在市場里。
And we don't want businesses to agree on prices in the back office.
我們不希望企業背地里制定統一價格。
We don't want them to divide the market between them.
我們不希望他們在彼此之間分割市場。
We don't want one big company just to shut out competitors from ever showing us what they can do.
我們不希望一家大公司打壓屏蔽其他對手，不給它們表現的機會。
If that happens, well, obviously, we feel that someone has cheated us,
如果這種事發生了，顯然我們會感到被欺騙，
that we are being ignored or taken for granted by the market.
被忽略或不被市場重視。
And that may undermine not only our trust in the market but also our trust in the society.
這不只危害我們對市場的信任，也危害我們對社會的信任。
In a recent survey, more than two-thirds of Europeans said that they had felt the effects of lack of competition:
最近一項調查顯示，超過2/3的歐洲人感受到缺乏競爭的影響：
that the price for electricity was too high, that the price for the medicines they needed was too high,
電費過高，所需的藥價格也過高，
that they had no real choice if they wanted to travel by bus or by plane, or they got poor service from their internet provider.
如果他們想乘公交或搭飛機旅行，他們并沒有真正的選擇機會，他們互聯網提供商給予差勁的服務等等。
In short, they found that the market didn't treat them fairly.
簡而言之，他們發現市場交易并不公平。
And that might seem like very small things, but they can give you this sense that the world isn't really fair.
乍看之下，這些都是小事，但它們可以給你一種這個世界并不公平的感覺。
And they see the market, which was supposed to serve everyone, become more like the private property of a few powerful companies.
他們看出本該是服務大眾的市場，變得像少數大公司的私有財產。
