Do you think the government is more responsive to you, or to Walmart?

But I agree, corporations are not the root of the problem. But they are "corporate" entities, like the government, and are creations of the State and have special privileges.

I plan to read up some on Britain's East India Company and the Dutch East India Company, which were two armed corporations that behaved like states and had the backing of their governments.

As I'm sure you know, even the CIA has front companies it uses abroad as well as some in Silicon Valley, like InQTel, to carry out the government's nefarious deeds. I think we've entered a phase of fascism, in the sense of government coordinating with corporations ("public-private partnerships"), through entities like BlackRock, State Street and others, to push things like DEI, the LGBTQ agenda, transgenderism, COVID and the vaccines, censorship, surveillance, election manipulation, etc.

Using corporations, governments have been able to do things with less pushback than they would get if done outright by the government. All that said, I'm not against businesses, but I do oppose their capture by and collusion with the State.