Crony capitalism is an innate human tendency.

Trump is an example of it writ large and blatant with his meme coins, corporate sponsors pardons for a price and multiple other rentseeking conflicts of interest.

Good government is the only thing that can sometimes reduce its manifestation and undermining of free markets.

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”