Looking at your analogy about governments being like companies, the issue is who the shareholders actually are. At one point, it might have been like a co-operative with the citizens as the shareholders. Then it was just an elite of citizens, but they still recognised they had to work for the good of the whole at least enough to keep their status.

But now the shareholders are extra-governmental unelected organisations and global corporations, and the citizens are just another resource to be exploited. If that means creating a culture that is unhealthy both mentally and physically.... well for the shareholders never mind, citizens can be replaced once they're bled dry or if they get uppity.