Contrary to popular myth, big business loves the nanny state. Were it not for the nanny state large companies would have to compete all by themselves in the cruel so called free market system that they pretend exists.. Big businesses’ love of big governments has become more obvious since the financial meltdown began in mid-September. First banks and financial institutions and then the big three auto makers went cap in hand to various governments to bail themselves out of a drastic situation that was by and large of their own making.