I love how roughly eighty percent of video game stories involve "evil corporations" who "experiment" on their customers, with no reconciliation between that totally bizarre fiction, and the real-life need for companies to serve their customers, else they go out of business. I work for a massive corporation, and after just one or two mis-steps in the market, even they are struggling mightily for relevance.

The other aspect which makes these fictions funny is that, for every Marxist claim made in video games about businesses, I can point to a real life example-- from the Nazi State to the Japanese Imperials during WWII-- of where a government did exactly that thing! For instance: mind control experiments on living subjects, and the US government.

"But... but governments are held accountable by elections!" Nope.

During an election, people are given the choice between no more than two or three alternatives. One or more of those choices are utterly, idologically incompatible with their world view. So, they either don't vote at all, or vote "by default" for the only option which makes any sense. And even then, more often than not that singular "choice" is wildly incompatible with their beliefs, which is why you without-fail hear these widespread "I don't like any of the options" complaints. What's worse, the elected bureaucrat then appoints unelected people-- clerks, advisers, council members, judges, police, regulatory officials, and so on-- who do most or all of the law creation and enforcement heavy lifting.

In a purely abstract sense, the State represents the "will of the people". But in real-world terms, the correlation between peoples' wishes and the States actions is so tenuous as to sometimes be diametrically opposed. This is true in a Democratic Republic, a parliamentary setup, a Constitutional Monarchy, or any other system.

Governments are monopolies. Pure and simple. That's why they can get away with extorting protection money from millions of people, waging wars all over the globe involving trillion dollar armies, and doing cruel and inhuman experiments against living subjects.

Whereas with a private business, if people get sick of ketchup, they buy mustard. Or ranch dressing. Or sriracha. Or salsa. Ditto goes for anything on the market: there are near-infinite substitutes. And there is zero compulsion to choose one over the other; you just grab a different bottle off of the grocery store shelf, no questions asked. The second a company makes people unhappy, a small upstart knocks them off.