The issue as I see it is that: Corporations control the government. The bad things that corporations do are much more immediate and common. When a government

The issue as I see it is that: Corporations control the government. The bad things that corporations do are much more immediate and common. When a government does something bad, in practice it is often just failing to protect people from corporations. For example, the parent mentioned providing clean air and water; however, the most likely scenario where that doesn't happen is a corporation polluting the environment. When the government does bad things (or more commonly fails to prevent bad things from happening), the consequences tend to correlate with inequality.