> Ideally, companies would exist to serve the public That would not be "companies" in the common sense anymore, but rather something like the East German "Volk

> Ideally, companies would exist to serve the public That would not be "companies" in the common sense anymore, but rather something like the East German "Volkseigener Betrieb" or the Russian "design bureaus". Which is something worth considering probably, but then you'd need larger changes, not just some laws that prohibit companies artificial limitations like this.