The companies are buying the laws they want. The companies, who don’t get to vote for the government, instead go ahead and buy the government.

To disagree with your comment:

I quite like the fact that there’s some part of the workforce who won’t immediately vote for someone because they promise tax-cuts. Promising tax-cuts to a populace when there is not enough tax to pay for the tiny amount of service the populace get from that tax is the height of stupidity.

Businesses are not held accountable by shareholders, and it’s ludicrous that some accountant in charge of a pension plan is the only person with a chance of holding them accountable. Do you really believe that person is doing anything other than wringing as much commission as they can out of the shareholder profit?

Your last comment appears crazy. You seem to be saying that public share-holder companies are God’s gift to the quality of life of society. If so, they hide it well by doing so much to keep us as mindless eyeballs.