Maybe corporations just want to sell their products, and governments help them if they think it benefits the people. Like maybe the government noticed rents are

Maybe corporations just want to sell their products, and governments help them if they think it benefits the people. Like maybe the government noticed rents are high in the city, so they thought with cars people could afford nice homes in the countryside? Even if that reasoning might have been wrong in the end, it just seems off to attribute everything to nefarious motives. It's the whole language - conspiring instead of cooperating, for example.