[timtas]

> the situation today is, that the big corporations are shaping the laws and the small players can not

Indeed! How about we fix that and don't let big corporations shape the laws? Crony capitalism is not an inherent feature of capitalism, it's a perversion of it which really ought not be taken as a given.

[TeMPOraL]

The only way to do that would be to have a government completely disconnected from the economy. As long as the officials need to eat, need to send their kids to school and need the money to increase their chances for reelection, politics is a part of market economy. Pretending those two are not connected is fooling oneself.

[timtas]

Wait...politics is part of the economy so we can pay politicians to be part of the economy? Seems tautological.

[TeMPOraL]

Because politics currently is a part of economy, period. You can't disconnect the two as long as officials participate in the economy themselves, because any such participation is a bridge between the two "worlds".