They always say “I don’t want the government to have all the power” but the thing is, yes a government can be corrupt, but the private sector is literally fundamentally corrupt. A government official is corrupt when they prioritize personal benefit over the public’s, which is literally what everyone in the private sector does and is expected to do. Private corporations don’t even have to be pretend to be on your side, they will always enrich themselves at your cost when given the opportunity and we’re supposed to applaud them for it. This isn’t a case of dividing power so one can keep the other in check, there have been no instances ever where the private sector has prevented a government overreach for the public’s benefit or anything like that. It’s not supposed to do that.

The government’s mission is to serve the public and when a government’s main priority becomes to enrich itself, we call it corrupt. The private sector’s one and only mission is to enrich itself but that’s somehow preferable.