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I'm not sure the "evil government conspiracy" argument and the "evil corporations conspiracy" argument are mutually exclusive. In Atlas Shrugged (I know, it's

I'm not sure the "evil government conspiracy" argument and the "evil corporations conspiracy" argument are mutually exclusive. In Atlas Shrugged (I know, it's terrible that I suggest anyone actually read that book, but bear with me) the problem is almost exactly as you observed: Some companies are able to write the law, and everyone else loses. I've spent a fair amount of time around left/right libertarians and anarchists, and it bothers me that they spend so much time debating this. One side will say "The problem is the evil corporations," and the other will say "The problem is that the government has too much power," but the argument is pointless because they are both correct.

narrator 16y ago
The thing is is that corporations and governments are composed of individual humans and many times their interests are intertwined. For instance, as anyone who's studied the financial crisis knows, there are plenty of people in the SEC who used to work for big wall street firms or got very cushy high paid wall street jobs after they leave the SEC. Thus, the wall street firms were not prosecuted for their possibly illegal practices during the financial crisis. The government vs the private sector is just a false conflict to divert your attention away from the individual actors with lucrative ties to the entertainment industry in the public and private sector who are driving this.