A common refrain unfortunately prevails, especially among Western capitalist nation governments and big business circles—that best business practices, including what's best for the consumers, are best decided by business decision makers.

Other than what's best for bottom-line corporate profit margins, this was proven false by, as a most consequential example, Boeing’s decision to keep its ill-fated 737 Max planes flying, regardless of indicators, including employee warnings, they should be grounded and serious software glitches corrected.

While an ousted CEO received more than $62 million to leave Boeing—likely from what’s now described as a “culture of concealment”—346 ticket-buyers received a most horrific death.

Furthermore, I've yet to read in the mainstream news-media how when the COVID-19 crisis began, the most influential, and maybe even the first, voices to have the ear of governments likely were the largest corporations, particularly the airlines.

The result was resistance against an immediate halt in international commerce, including overseas flights, weeks of delay that may have translated into many COVID-19 deaths.