I like Dave. But sometimes he just misses the boat. He gets so close to the heart of the problem, then gets distracted by a part of the problem.
Yes, Dave, totalitarian government is the problem. But not because it's influencing or forcing big corporations to do things, but because big corporate interests can get their way by buying government. Make that leap and it fixes every problem he has explaining why liberty is good.
Big business in a free society is balanced by small business. So big business builds up government to the point where it can regulate small business into a shadow of its normal power, or even lock it down and squash it. Government isn't using corporations as its tools, corporate interests are using government.
Therefore, liberty works not in spite of being messy, but because of that. That's the beauty Jeff Deist has his finger on, but didn't articulate. Dave can't find it. If you don't entrust government to police commerce, commerce can't buy government. If commerce can't buy government, you will always have other choices.
The Nestlē boycott fifty years ago worked because people could choose other, similar products. Now we can't just boycott BNSF for mistreating its workers, or just boycott Pfizer. BNSF has monopolies. Pfizer is in cahoots with J and J and Moderna, and more. We have to boycott rail. We have to boycott medicine. That's fine for those of us who can. But not everyone is in a position to do it.
Make that leap, see how the fascist relationship really works, and it becomes clear what our job is. We have to make people see that centralized order isn't beautiful. It's order that's robotic. The messiness of liberty is beautiful.
We have to make people see that centralized control makes messes, because it's in their interest to do so. People want order, so messes cause them to clamor to be controlled. We have to make them see that the beauty of the chaos of liberty is that it produces order, because most people want it. So, the majority of these free and equal people are working to create it.