There are plenty of credulous people that believe that what is good for the biggest of businesses in America, is therefore good for America. In truth, what is good for the biggest of businesses is primarily good for those that are its principle stockholders, as well as the top executives and upper management of those businesses, of which, to a significant extent, we do so find, that the general public, are typically not served all that well by big business. The proximate problem with big businesses is the fact that they often have undue influence upon governmental officials of all types, as well as politicians, and that they are also quite adept at working whatever angles that need to be worked so that legislation, laws, and judicial decisions, thereby favor their interests, above all. In short, big business seems to exist for the people to serve big business, and not for big business to serve the people.
To somehow believe that big business is some sort of great benefit to society, seems to miss the forest for the trees, for though big businesses do indeed provide products and services to the general public, the fact that they are so big, typically means that they are also able to garner gains and benefits that best serve firstly their own enterprise which may well then be in conflict with what the people need and want, in totality. Indeed, to an absolute certainty, size matters; which thereby signifies that big businesses need to be carefully looked at and regulated by parties that represent well the interests of the people, so that these businesses do not themselves circumvent or dominate the greater interests of the people, in whole.
For whatever reason, big businesses, in recent decades, have for the most part, escaped any real restrictions upon their growth or influence; in addition to the salient fact that these big businesses have done an outstanding job, of deflecting attention to their enterprises, by having the general public look askance instead upon their own government, as in big government being the proximate problem that the public should be most concerned about. In other words, private enterprise is seen by a significant swath of Americans, as being all to the good; whereas, government is itself seen as being arbitrary, out-of-touch, interfering with progress, and in whole, doing a disservice to the people.
The difference between big business and government, is that through the democratic vote, the people thus make their selections of who represents them; whereas, big business answers only to Wall Street, and none other. This thus signifies that big businesses have been able to successfully maneuver and to position themselves that they are essentially a law unto themselves, thereby dictating to their workforce what the pay and what the conditions of that employment will be, which quite obviously is beneficial to those at the top of these big businesses as well as its stockholders, and not to the benefit of those that are the worker cogs of such. So then, any society in which the power rests not in the hands of the people, through its elected representatives, but rather such power is wielded through the hands of private enterprise which thus bosses it over the people, will be a society in which the few have the best of best, and the many have just the leftovers and left asides.