I own a business, a small business mind you that has yet to turn a profit but I am a business owner and I've been working 60 hours a week trying to build it to be successful.
There is this very negative stereotype about corporations and how evil they are and how we need to regulate them like crazy.
Let's take a huge corporation like google, google is a company I despise. I won't give my reasons here because it's irrelevant. But because I dislike them, I have removed them from my life. I don't use google for anything. I even adblock youtube on my phone and computer. (Sorry content creators)
When google does something bad people want regulations, instead of removing them from their life.
When you have a bad friend you don't ask the government to make them stop doing something. You tell them stop and when they won't you end the friendship. Companies are people the more you support bad business practices the more you will see of them. Regulations just allow bad people to stay in business, when you make it so a business can't destroy itself you ruin the concept of a free market.
My point being corporations are people, and just like people instead of asking the government to make them a good friend, you find a better friend. Theres so many small businesses out there that believe in treating people right, but it's hard for them to grow as we put more and more regulations on things. Where I'm from they've made a new rule on licenses for crane operators over a certain weight limit. It's not some license that you go take some simple test for, it's thousands of dollars per person. This means most small crane businesses won't be afford to run anymore, and definitely new businesses won't be able to be started.
This is sorta just my stream of thoughts on the subject.
As a longtime fellow business owner I agree with a lot of this. There's a caricature of the greedy sort of manipulative dirtbag business owners, but in my experience those guys don't last long. And the most successful people are often the kindest, most generous and mild-mannered people you'll ever meet.
And yeah, generally speaking regulations don't hurt big businesses. They just help them by preventing competition. Sometimes this is very blatant (like requiring million dollar licenses for taxis, or outlawing airbnb in cities where hotel owners are influential). But a lot of times it's probably well meaning and still accomplishes the same thing (like regulating the healthcare industry until the only ones standing charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for a few days care).
Not that hurting big businesses would even be a good thing. Economies run on business. Everyone's life is made better by capitalism, and I do mean everyone. Far better to be poor in a rich country than poor in a poor country. What people really hate is cronyism, which itself is really antithetical to capitalism.