Corporations aren’t inherently an evil concept… the rubicon was corporate personhood. The idea that corporations have equivalent rights to people unless we legislate that they don’t… that’s the mind poison… the rot that has slowly eaten into society and for more than a hundred years has been backing up capitalism and corporatism and all the greed and corruption with the subtle backstop of thought terminating cliches like “people have rights and corporations are people so they have rights” and normal people don’t want to learn a mountain of history to unpack the lies and bullshit…
And companies have the money to hire the best PR… so they have done a pretty good job convincing everyone on the sorts of subjects that are in the corporations best interests… sadly.
Agreed, big mistake there. And next to impossible to fix now.