[Mmmike]

In a legal-positivist, capital-positivist society that's how it works. Those with the money write the laws and the policies and that's it, period, forever.

The key is to know that this phenomenon has a name (two names, shown in blue). It's not co-extensive with the known universe. The antidote is the Natural Law of the medievals, rooted in the built-in order of things, which stands athwart the unchained will of man.

[YogicCowboy]

Well said. That is why I despair over the cookie-cutter conservatives who smugly say, Hey, Free Market, Man, to the way Big Tech controls our lives through lobbyist lawyers and businesslike bribes.

We do not have a free market. We have a vastly regulated market, and the regulations are written by and for the most wealthy and powerful.

Mark Zuckerberg is calling for more regulations because he knows they will favor the big guys and hurt the small guys.