" This, after spending many many years putting small businesses out of business so they can underpay their employees who have no other option due to all the small business failures. "
That's false.
The only reason they don't have other options is due to taxes and regulations, especially property taxes, income taxes, and the minimum wage.
If you cannot freely start a business and own a home without constantly having to pay the governemnt money, you'll always be a neo-feudal slave.
When mega corporations write the laws to reinforce their dominance they put small businesses out of business & might as well be government. Fact
It's not so much that corporations write the laws, it's that they bribe the politicians to pass them. The problem is with the amount of power politicians have. If they didn't have the power to do these things, there wouldn't be an issue. As long as they have such power, the problem will exist. Unless you believe in the myth of the "honest politician".
Did the chicken or egg come first? I’d say a ceo of a corporation the size of wal mart is much much more powerful than a lowly politician. CEO makes much more money & is hired for an unlimited # of years. CEOs buy & sell politicians, both have way too much power.
But if the politicians didn't have so much power, they wouldn't be worth buying. As long as politicians have broad taxation and regulation powers, they will be targets for corruption.
& if the politicians didn’t exist, the resource heavy ceos of massive corporations would find another way to benefit themselves. Too much power is too much power. I don’t see any difference between too much power in the hands of a state sponsored corporation vs a gov. Do you think the people & gov. have had more influence over the laws of this country or the will of corporations? I’d bet you a thousand lobbyist pay on corporations
Corporations do not and should not have the power to make law. It's the politicians that do that. Corporations would have less power and could not become as large without government assistance. Lobbyists would be irrelevant if politicians did not have the power to make regulatory laws that benefit corporations. There will always be wealthy people with influence. The more powerful and centralized the government is, the more power there is to buy.