&gt; But that would be against a lot of cronies&#x27; interests and very much in the people&#x27;s interests, so it&#x27;s never going to happen.<p>Not necessarily always in the &quot;people&#x27;s interests&quot;. Here&#x27;s a bit of <i>Wealth of Nations</i> that you don&#x27;t often see quoted:<p><i>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.</i>