One might think that governmental laws, as well as the rules and regulations so set, do matter, when it comes to those important things, for example, such as the environment, taxation, corporate collusion, and labor issues. What needs to be recognized, though, is whenever the fox is guarding the henhouse, then whatever that fox so wants and needs for itself, or for those that it answers to, then the result will always almost be in conformance with the desires of that fox.
It would be a mistake to ever believe that in the richest nation that the world has ever known -- that lots of concentrated money somehow would not have an incredible influencing power upon those actions so taken and subsequently judged upon in regards to business enterprises, by those that have the authority as public servants, to appropriately do that very thing. In other words, while there are myriad ways for anybody or any institution to stand up and to make their case to the general public or to legislatures – the thing about the influence that money can buy, is that the easiest route to make sure that what needs to occur or not to occur, is to either have an undue influence upon critical public servants or basically to be that actual public servant, itself.
Those then, that are public servants that have either been captured by the elites that have plenty of influence and power to exert upon them, or have been appointed to their position specifically by the elites to serve them, are going to do, way more times than not, exactly what those elites want, because they know then that taking care of the elites will be rather lucrative for them, on some level or another. Because those elites have so much money and power, in addition, to the vital connections that they have developed, then pretty much whatever that they want they are going to get, whenever those that they deal with, are themselves corrupt, weak, malleable, or without principle.
Whenever that government, of, for, and by the people, is not, in essence, actually any of those things, because those governmental representatives have been captured or have sold themselves to the elites of this nation, then the people effectively have had their democratic voice, nullified. So then, when the very people that are in charge of enforcing the law, implementing the law, and judging the law, on behalf of the people, aren’t actually doing their job in a responsible and diligent manner because they have been compromised or are corrupt, than the end result is not going to be beneficial for the people, in whole, but rather is going to be beneficial for those that are the actuators of such.
The important thing to keep in the foremost of one’s mind, is that the elites of this world, aren’t the same type of people, that desire to hold onto their power and influence for only a short finite period of time, but often want to hold onto their power for their own or for their progeny or for their corporations’ benefit, for as long as possible. That is why the elites need political capture, because only in the accomplishment of that, can they be assured that what they so have and desire to have more of, will not be successfully challenged.