This is because in the system we live in, there are more incentives for entrepreneurs to get their hands on politics than to do their own business. State interventionism guarantees them juicy contracts, special permits, concessions, and a lot of money in all its forms. It is more beneficial for them to get their hands in politics than to just do their business.

The simple presence of the state, as we now conceive it, makes the free market impossible, because as long as the state intervenes in the economy, there will be economic interests trying to control them. For practical purposes we live in socialism. Because big capitalists are the new state.