And I'm saying you're wrong since the Free Market and our current governance models and public buy-in and wealth distributions have led the greatest business success and innovation in the entirety of human history. Good intervention from government has been fantastic for business.
Maybe we just don't need more stuff.
Edit: Carlin quote
Ever notice how your shit is stuff and other peoples stuff is shit?
...and one we've rarely employed. Most markets are absolutely not free in the libertarian sense, and while often for near-sighted politics—such as tariffs for goods—also sometimes for the greater good. For example, antitrust legislation is market regulation as truly free markets tend to converge in a winner-takes-all fashion. And once there are only a handful of large corporations left they tend to start shunning down the market from entry-level companies to help cementing their own position, via make-do regulation of their own and/or lobbying for more robust government-appointed regulation.
That's ridiculous. The Free Market is one of the greatest economic tools we've ever discovered, and hybrid distributed representative/micro constitutional monarchies a successful governance/innovation model. Together they're the foundation for most of modern business and are a direct creation of regulation and maintained by the same. The Free Market has requirements for operation like any tool. I really have trouble understanding how you could argue that business would be better off under mercantilism and aristocracy or any other older, less efficient system. They don't work as well in known theory and haven't worked as well in practice either.
Good vs bad governance is very important, but "more" vs "less" not so much. Just like anything else implementation matters the most.