> But... why are you bringing this up? Because an overwhelming majority of threads like this, someone will use government corruption as the excuse to get up on

> But... why are you bringing this up? Because an overwhelming majority of threads like this, someone will use government corruption as the excuse to get up on their soapbox and proclaim that's why government is evil. They'll rattle on about how private enterprise isn't evil at all, and when you point out things they do wrong, they'll shout "regulatory capture!" like it's some bogeyman that keeps the unregulated, free market from creating the utopia that only unrestricted capitalism can. They're not contradicting you. They're heading off the hyper-libertarians who think the laissez-faire free market will magically solve all problems and lead us Moses-like to some divine land of milk and honey, because somehow the market can solve all problems of corruption, information control, labor vs capital stress, etc. These people haven't read where Adam Smith argued for government regulation, or how unrestrained, unregulated capitalism was already tried in the 19th century and it failed with horrific results and widespread human casualties on an unimaginable scale.