[sirtaj]

> But that would be against a lot of cronies' interests and very much in the people's interests, so it's never going to happen.

Not necessarily always in the "people's interests". Here's a bit of Wealth of Nations that you don't often see quoted:

Corporation laws, however, give less obstruction to the free circulation of stock from one place to another than to that of labour. It is everywhere much easier for a wealthy merchant to obtain the privilege of trading in a town corporate, than for a poor artificer to obtain that of working in it.