"To take an extreme example." I am not defending the piece as some monumental treatise. BUT... by this argument, an environmentalist asking for protection ag

"To take an extreme example." I am not defending the piece as some monumental treatise. BUT... by this argument, an environmentalist asking for protection against pollution could be dismissed by a CEO who claims the market for pricing those externalities can't/aren't understood by those outside of the shop. And...the corporation today could be easily compared in its breadth and omnipotence to the church of the 16th century.