Sure. Much better than to VC backed startups anyway.

Like when the sugar industry lobbied and the US government told everyone fat is bad for 50 years?

Did the government say that sugar is good?

We're going to have to agree to disagree.

The US has done terrible things in the too-recent future in the explicit name of making the world a better place.

At least, that rationale triggers my gag reflex.

Isn’t a lot of what the US government does decided by capital anyway?

Kind of.

There is a lot of money in lobbying for certain things.

Companies generally don't want political outcomes per se via lobbying outside of their own niche interests.

Much more impactful are dedicated lobby groups.

For exmaple, there's a particular country that I'm not allowed to mention here under duress of being banned that has a lot of moneyed lobbying.