If the planet isn't poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren't killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled. 
If the planet isn't poisoned more and if workers (and the public in general) aren't killed for arbitrary reasons on a whim, ascension is canceled.
Yeah for sure, but they can never expand on it or articulate how regulation gets in the way of them being a gazillionaire. They just state it.
Because it stops them from having slaves