&gt; It&#x27;s not like &quot;corporations&quot; turn otherwise acceptable people into raving power brokers.<p>One of the major functions of corporations is shielding the people involved in them from most personal liability (and, hence, accountability.)<p>Its hardly a novel thought that reduced accountability might make &quot;otherwise acceptable people&quot; into problems for the rest of society. (Plato was certainly not the first to point this out with his account Gyges Ring in the <i>Republic</i> around 2,500 years ago.)