re: Stereotypes
You seem to think that being in business somehow makes you immune to normal human greed and larceny, UNLESS, you're seduced into it by some evil government agency.
I never said anything of the sort.
What I said was that, as in any part of society, the honest businessmen far outnumber the crooks.
I also said that crooked businessmen often use government power to gain their own ends.
There are countless businessmen without political connections or lobbies. Many don't even make political contributions outside of local government. Until a few years ago, Bill Gates was one of them.