Why you have to work in the Power at some stage of your business growth
My experience tells that at a certain stage of growth, any business faces the need to work in the Power (a government or networks\structures beyond it), as its competitors or simply ill-wishers begin to use the state apparatus and instruments of the Power to destroy or capture your business.
The second point is the law of concentration of the capital. Political economy's classics. The competitive market is something close to a myth: it can be found in some particular examples, but everywhere I see monopolies and quasi-monopolies.
The third point is that the capitalism is about 400 years old. Monopolies had been formed a long time ago. All or almost the entire economy of the world (sic!) is concentrated in the hands of a relatively small group of people, all links lead to Blackrock and Vanguard corporations.
A few related publications:
How to govern the society and the state:
https://gelassen.github.io/blog/2022/02/14/how-to-govern-the-society-and-state.html
A freedom of speech issue:
https://gelassen.github.io/blog/2022/12/05/a-few-words-regarding-freedom-of-speech.html