[sph]

The big issue is either we surrender our freedoms to governments, or we depend on corporations that have even less oversight, unless we expect the government to regulate them.

There is no win condition for citizens, either way they are pawns to a larger game than them.

A more sensible heuristic would be to assume both government and corporations to effectively be an equivalent negative force, and the larger they are, the more fucked we are. Thanks to technological progress, we now live in an era of gigantic governments and gigantic corporations.

[tuesdaynight]

> There is no win condition for citizens, either way they are pawns to a larger game than them.

That's sadly correct. If you are not very rich or very influential, your position in these political things don't matter. Whenever I'm watching medieval shows where the plebeians or common folks are just background things in the story, I cannot ignore how similar our current societies are. However, I'm still learning how to avoid being anxious by these things.