So you want less government oversight into your business. You feel that draconian fair trade policies choke your otherwise uncontested stranglehold on the market for your product. And after all, you bribed enough politicians, paid enough lobbyists, and funded enough PACs that by god, you deserve to operate as close to a monopoly as can be legally hedged! You paid for it, didn't you? And besides, you say, when anyone says differently, "Capitalism works!" You love that phrase. You use it regularly, at cocktail parties, when anyone brings up your slightly shady price-fixing with your "competition," your hostile buyouts of those of your competitors who wouldn't "get with the program." When it all comes down to it, why shouldn't you? After all. "Capitalism works!"

But what if it doesn't? What if, instead of letting you run ragged over the average consumer, capitalism instead, begins to actually work? What if people start buying better, cheaper products made overseas? That is, after all, the very nature of capitalism. What if it starts to work the way it should, with consumers being able to see readily-available data instantly, being able to see intimately the failings of your products versus that of your real competitors in other countries? The internet has changed everything, ushering in an age of absolute transparency, which destroys the carefully fabricated false-reality that you have spent so long building, so long paying for!

Suddenly, this capitalism thing isn't looking so great. And suddenly, when a recession forces you to deal with reality...

You turn to the federal government to help you. The private sector has failed you, and now you must rely on the government to bail you out of your current crises. But you can't have it both ways. Either you live or die on your own, or you live and die by the will of the state.