[batavian]

The former is a superset of the latter. Companies are political entities. At the most obvious level they are legal entities, and law is politics.

But the mistake here (and some other comments) of drawing "lawmakers", "politics", etc as being conceptually distinct from private corporations is particularly absurd from a historical view. The Protestant Reformation and the Enlightenment forged political battles with substantial effort, debate, human cost that over centuries invented the concept you take granted as "companies", but which no other human civilization previous would have been familiar with. That there are "companies" at all is political, and so the OP is already pointing to a failure of politics.

[koonsolo]

Ok, let me rephrase then: it's a failure of governments.

[esarbe]

Putting it like that makes it easy to distance oneself from responsibility.

Government is just a function of agreed upon values, rules and principles.

It's really a failure of our society. We're all failing.

[koonsolo]

No it is not distancing from responsibility. Governments are democratically elected by everyone. So it is clear everyone is to blame.

When you put the blame on big companies, like the person I replied to, that is distancing! Because we cannot influence those decisions.