Government represents those in power. Usually they strongly defend a handful of the elite in the private sector and ensure that those elite remain powerful through market manipulation and coercion against innovative rivals. That would be the standard model in the US and Europe, and it happens to be the Fascist economic system. Some countries cut out the middleman and actually DO try to represent themselves and the people directly and alone. That idea creates hellholes like Red China, the USSR, Cuba, Allende's Chile, and North Korea.
There is a delusional person in this thread, and it isn't the one claiming that letting people make their own decisions without a gun to their head works.
That's pretty sweet. The government is just a hollow shell agent of the rich and powerful... but when that agent does bad stuff, the agent is the root cause of the problem, not the people controlling the agent and making it do bad stuff.
Damn, you guys bring non-stop lulz. How's the weather over in that alternate reality?
Oh, and as for the corporation semantics. I know exactly what a corporation is, as I've standed repeatedly. I don't give two shits about the legal definition of a corporation because corporation = big business = rich and powerful. Everyone without their head up their ass understands exactly what's being referred to, but feel free to to deflecting to semantics games because you can't address the actual arguments.