I'm not angry I'm disappointed 3: Corporate Anarchy

Government suffers from being disappointed in it's citizens as well. Over the last thirty years or so, more and more of it's former core tasks have been disappearing due to the mistaken belief that the market will solve everything. Of course, business aren't the least bit interested in anything aside from profit. Governments tend to think that profits are connected to efficiency through a nebulous process carefully obfuscated by their top economics. Now left with virtually nothing to do, they're turning on their own citizens. If you've wondered why there seems to be nothing they don't want to know about you, this is why. Governments have little else to do these days but mine data and legislate on the basis of this, and facilitate a market economy which is totally free, except when it's about to fail, in which case it's propped up to fail at a later date. They can now spend all of their time worrying about you, and intervene whenever they like. If they can't get to you, they'll wait for some private entity to get you.