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When the reins are held by the "investors" of chemical companies, big oil, big pharma, weapons manufacturers, etc. etc. then we have a corporatocracy. They get to decide what sort of funding truly PUBLIC research labs get... and you end up with school budgets falling short, and relying on corporate grant monies. Same way for their donations to campaigns to get the Profiteer agenda rolling along on their behalf. The public interest is shoved aside, and policy and lawmaking and even decisions about tax dollars to support public works become a means to pursue the interests of the invested only ... and government and lawmaking and taxation and revenues and funding becomes a scheme that is concerned only about their own bottom line, their abiltiy to amass more wealth and gain control over our ability to be free, to be "independent". Instead, people are now prostate, begging for beneficence from our "leaders" in government and business. The "system" is ultimately corrupt from top to bottom, thoroughly. We need to rid ourselves of the "corporate person-hood", we need to rid ourselves of insider trading in government, we need to rid ourselves of "superpac money" in politics, or we become nothing more than their hamsters.