Businesses, in particular corporations, only operate in the context of some government. Plenty of folks who think competition is the best and that competition

Businesses, in particular corporations, only operate in the context of some government. Plenty of folks who think competition is the best and that competition brings out the best in everything still believe that you still have to first organize markets and make sure they are competitive, i.e. It is not the natural state of things in each and every realm of life. We do not force companies to be profitable, we force them to play by a set of rules that we agree allows society to extract the most value from the companies rather than the other way around.