You might want to revise your original post's wording, which quite directly implies that the incumbent-friendly policies that emerged in the last few decades, s

You might want to revise your original post's wording, which quite directly implies that the incumbent-friendly policies that emerged in the last few decades, specifically, are laissez-faire. Your original post is responding to a post critiquing incumbent-friendly policies that only emerged in the last few decades. Your point that market economics alone can favor incumbents isn't wrong, but that's a non-sequitir response to the post you are responding to. Market economics aren't the incumbent-friendly policies that only emerged in the last few decades. The artificial mechanisms instituted through purchased political influence are.