That actually brings up an interesting thought. Corporations are able to be ruthlessly competitive with each other in some part because they keep things secret

That actually brings up an interesting thought. Corporations are able to be ruthlessly competitive with each other in some part because they keep things secret when they can. Is it plausible that one of the reasons that major corporations have so much power now is because the government was TOO open for enough decades that the corporations were able to out compete?