Almost every life lost is either directly or indirectly the fault of government. Why would corporate overlords be the more likely people to assume will be directing your dystopian future fiction when governments exist today?

... Because this thread is about a project that's a security nightmare, bought by a massive corporation currently ignoring the hugely problematic ethical issues surrounding their products. Corporations which btw, have more money and more power then most of the governments on the planet. Governments do terrible shit too, but it's less relevant to this conversation.

But I'm more interested in this framing. Are you saying that tobacco companies are somehow less responsible for their actions because the government didn't stop them from killing their customers? If the government just didn't exist, and tobacco companies could do whatever they wanted, do you think there would be less deaths from cigarettes?