I think you hit the nail on the head. It isn't about this idea or that idea, because at some point every side of every argument will get perverted for some corporate agenda. They keep winning and we keep losing; that's the only consistent thing. And yet, even seeing it, what do we do about it? Right now corporations have more rights than people, yet they are not limited to a mere 100 year natural lifespan. They only die when they are eaten by their own. The potential for abuse grows dramatically with technological advancements unless something intrinsic to the technology prevents that abuse. Hence the importance of decentralization. But even with that, when a network is small, it can still be manipulated by huge players.

I saw on here a couple days ago someone writing about this new platform he's building for STEEM (which he referred to as a steemit app) where he would be able to make it easy for corporations to dominate the Steemit trending page with bots. He actually thought that would improve Steemit, by squeezing all the poor people who can now afford to buy enough bot power to make that page. His thinking was that poor people would of course produce lower quality content than corporations would. I'm not even exaggerating. He literally used such terms.

What is to save us when people actually believe the corporations are more deserving of privilege and power than everyday people are?