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Industries are also better with regard to conflict of interest in that there is no conflict, they just have interests which are entirely separate from those of the public.

> Even ignoring lobbying, you see regulators reaching out for comments from industry about new rules.

Yet somehow the only times those "comments from industry" are taken into consideration in a meaningful way is when they come from large businesses with deep pockets or astroturf consumer interest groups funded by large businesses with deep pockets. Genuine grassroots consumer interest groups rarely leave a mark.