There's a difference between a well tended garden and one left to do whatever it wants. Consumers and producers don't always get to decide. If you live in a sm

There's a difference between a well tended garden and one left to do whatever it wants. Consumers and producers don't always get to decide. If you live in a small town that has a Wal-Mart then it's extremely difficult to compete directly with that store if you're just some independent. People might like your business, but you can't buy at the same volumes, you can't force the hand of city council for tax breaks, you have almost no power in comparison. Absent good governance then corporations decide everything and we get to "decide" between the options they deign to give us.